1.3 almost ready

Changed the version number to 1.3 and removed “Beta”.

(links removed, see below)

Uses irc.lfnet.org.

MinGW still only has good old stable 3.4.5.  There’s not much reason for them to update it.

When I looked at the 3.4.5 compiled SHA disassembly, I couldn’t see any room for improvement at all.  I can’t imagine how 8% more could be squeezed out of it.  Is it possible Windows could have 8% more overhead?  Not making system calls or anything, just plain busy computational code, could task switching and other housekeeping operations take away that much?

Quote from: dkaparis on June 27, 2010, 10:02:25 PMOn a related note, is the thing compilable by Visual C++? I’m inclined to give it a try when I get around to it. It is, but generating is more than twice as slow.