1 2017-10-02 10:03:40 <hofm> Hi there! I was wondering what someone from a high performance computing background could contribute bitcoin?
2 2017-10-02 10:04:28 <hofm> is application performance an issue at all (except perhaps during initial sync)?
3 2017-10-02 10:06:45 <wxxs> hofm, bcash may need high performance optimization
4 2017-10-02 12:22:46 <waxwing> hofm, generally speaking yes performance is a *huge* issue in initial sync (and afaict constantly being worked on), and is less so but still very important in steady state. one of the main bottlenecks is cpu usage for ecdsa verification, see https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1
5 2017-10-02 13:21:31 <hofm> waxwing: thanks for the pointer