Seemingly improper DIFF display (WAS: Network DIFF on Feathercoin) about sgminer HOT 7 CLOSED

This is not Feathercoin-specific.

I have reverted the display style to that of cgminer 3.1.1. That is, if we display share difficulty as integers (1, 2, 4, ...), and not their real network-wide value (0.000015, 0.00003, 0.00006, ...), then it only makes sense to display and count in the same manner throughout the entire interface.

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Related commit: veox@cb806d2

Note that it was displayed like this since forever, and only started showing "true netdiff" since the commit that the commit above fixes. This was due to cgminer discontinuing scrypt support.

I will leave this issue open for a while if someone thinks this warrants a discussion.

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It's not important to me as the software works just fine for the intended purpose. Although having been used to cgminer 3.7.2's display; I admit that I, in my limited understanding, fail to see the advantage to reverting the display style. Yet, all I really want is to hash.
Cheers :)

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IMO true network-style difficulty display is better, too, but it involves slightly more changes, and would generate a lot more "difficulty is wrong" reports.

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I understand what you are saying about using consistent units in the interface. What about consistent units across applications? All of the coin daemons (e.g. litcoind, dogecoind, etc...) use the "old" cgminer 3.7 way.

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@phred02, see https://github.com/veox/sgminer/issues/115

This is low on my personal priority list.

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Hi veox, thanks for your contribution to keep the gpu miner community active with sgminer, i also came here wondering about the network difficulty but after reading your comment it makes more sense to me now. Because i always wondered what 64/128/256 means when i get difficulty assigned from the pool.

So if i understand correctly. with the way sgminer is displaying network difficulty now we can easily see when we solve a block or comes close to solving a block because the result in our share will match network difficulty thats showed in sgminer, am i right?

Thanks for your time reading this.

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@devzer01 yes, exactly. That is the main purpose of keeping the units consistent.

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