Day-4 task per fox: stack v3 windowed-G ladder (Day-3) with v2 Montgomery
batch inversion (Day-2). Idea: Day-3 cut scalar_mul, residual ModInv now
matters — which is what Day-2 needed to win.
Result:
- v4 (--window-w 4 --batch-inv) lands byte-identical vs coincurve at
n in {32, 1000, 10000, 100000, 1000000}.
- 3090-ai best-of-3 @ n=1M: v1 7.86 / v3 13.83 / v4 12.16 Mkeys/s.
- v4 regresses -12% vs v3 because v2's Phase B/D walks run one thread
per block (3906 active threads at n=1M; 3090 has ~125k concurrent
thread budget). v3's per-thread ModInv saturates 1M parallel threads
on 82 SMs — the threading model beats the smaller field-mult count.
- HARD-RULE triggered: v4 < 1.10x v3 → no v4 promotion.
Daemon flip per task brief option A:
- start-daemon now takes optional extra-args; register-daemon!,
maybe-register-daemon! pass them through.
- *secp-daemon-extra-args* = '("--window-w" "4") activates v3 in the
spawned secp256k1 daemon. cuda-shake-fanout and cuda-bignum-cgbn
spawn unchanged.
Deployed:
- 3090-ai: rebuilt secp256k1-batch-mul, restarted via /tmp/launch.sh.
Worker log shows [v3-window-w4] on smoke at n=16 and n=200.
- ai.foxhop.net (4090): same. sm_89, libgmp at ~/local/gmp.
Smoke test: small BSCP request to each worker over TCP, byte-identical
vs coincurve. Both PASS.
Catalog (CATALOG.md, www/bend.html): promoted v3 throughput to
13.83 Mkeys/s @ n=1M, recorded v4 regression and warp-scan Phase B/D
as Day-5+ refactor.
Progress doc: plans/form-A-day4-progress.md.
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