I'm getting about 250k sha1 hamming distance calculations per core per second, on an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 3050 @ 2.13GHz (from /proc/cpuinfo). This is a full implementation... I can just drop in the word list and challenge phrase on game day.
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5148 @ 2.33GHz gives me 300k/sec.