# Gavin Andresen
# 2010-06-03 23:47:32
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=160.msg1339#msg1339

One Amazon "EC2 compute unit" is, according to them, approximately equal to a 1ghz 2007 Xeon processor (that's a m1.small). @p{par}

Judging by my laptop generating experience, there's no way an m1.small instance would generate enough @s{/B} to be profitable. @p{par}

The heftiest instance you can buy ("large CPU") is 20 units big, and costs $0.231 per hour; with bitcoins selling for about a half a penny each it would have to generate 46 per hour (or about a block an hour) to break even.  Ummm.... no, that does not compute. @p{par}

RE: how did I get hashes-per-second on my mac:  I applied @p{(link}laszlo's patch@p{link)} to a version I compiled from source code.