* Pasta bench
* cleanup env variables
* [MSM]: generate benchmark coef-points pairs in parallel
* try to fix windows Ci
* add diagnostic info
* fix old test for new codecs/io primitives
* Ensure the projective point at infinity is not all zeros, but (0, 1, 0)
* try parallel reduction in batch add, but alas it's slower than custom chunking. Except maybe on arch with performance/efficiency cores
* initial impl of parallel MSM - scaling to debug, threads not woken fast enough
* improve comment [skip ci]
* skip top window when c divides the number of bits
* for some reason parallel-for loops scale on 5+ threads while spawn only on 2x threads. Thread wakeup issue?
* Add counters and timers to audit threadpool bottlenecks
* metrics and profiling fixes, (slower) latency hiding, activate tests
* fix thief thread trying to wake another before canceling its own sleep
* easier to sort metrics and parallel endomorphism application
* selective endomorphism acceleration
* some tuning
* spawn can handle compile-time literals, static and type parameters. Also introduce spawnAwaitable to await void procs
* improve MSM overview [skip ci]
* bench cleanup
* unoptimized msm
* MSM: reorder loops
* add a signed windowed recoding technique
* improve wNAF table access
* use batchAffine
* revamp EC tests
* MSM signed digit support
* refactor MSM: recode signed ahead of time
* missing test vector
* refactor allocs and Alloca sideeffect
* add an endomorphism threshold
* Add Jacobian extended coordinates
* refactor recodings, prepare for parallelizable on-the-fly signed recoding
* recoding changes, introduce proper NAF for pairings
* more pairings refactoring, introduce miller accumulator for EVM
* some optim to the addchain miller loop
* start optimizing multi-pairing
* finish multi-miller loop refactoring
* minor tuning
* MSM: signed encoding suitable for parallelism (no precompute)
* cleanup signed window encoding
* add prefetching
* add metering
* properly init result to infinity
* comment on prefetching
* introduce vartime inversion for batch additions
* fix JacExt infinity conversion
* add batchAffine for MSM, though slower than JacExtended at the moment
* add a batch affine scheduler for MSM
* Add Multi-Scalar-Multiplication endomorphism acceleration
* some tuning
* signed integer fixes + 32-bit + tuning
* Some more tuning
* common msm bench + don't use affine for c < 9
* nit
* [Threadpool] Fix syncAll releasing while a thread was attempting to steal + force no exception in tasks
* fix unguarded access on MacOS barriers
* parallel batchadd
* moved import
* First draft at bindings generation
* finite field bindings PoC
* support openarray, export NimMain
* PoC extension fields and elliptic curve bindings
* Pasta
* expose more bindings, remove nimZeroMem, remove tracer when unused, codegen name_mangling`gensym issue
* workaround bad C gensym codegen with {.inline.} pragma in non-dirty template nested in generic proc instantiated by template
* split modular inversion in its own file
* Stash fast GCD inversion https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/972.pdf
* Stash Pornin's bingcd -> issue with inner modular reduction
* Implement Bernstein-Yang inversion
* Avoid Nim checks on signed integers (32-bit runtime issue)
* cleanup: remove old inversion impls
* cleanup: static moduli, move div2
* small comments (skip ci)
* comment cleanup (skip ci)
* fix total iterations on 32-bit
* Add batch conversion to affine coordinates using simultaneous inversion trick
* fix conditional setZero and batchAffine conversion
* cleanup unneeded branches following affine conversion unification
* Fix batchAffine with zero inputs and add fuzz failure to test suite
* Implement a Sage codegenerator for frobenius constants
* Sage codegen for pairings
* Autogen of endomorphism acceleration constants
* The autogen fixed a copy-paste bug in lattice decomposition. We can use conditional negation now and save an add+dbl in scalar mul
* small fixes
* sage code for square root bls12-377 is not old
* readme updates
* Provide test suggestions for derive_frobenius
* indentation + add equation form to sage
* Sage test vector generator
* Use the json vectors
- includes type system workaround: generic sandwich https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/11225
- converting NimNode to typedesc: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/6785
* Delete old sage code
* Install nim-serialization and nim-json-serialization in CI
* CI nimble install force yes
* Add Fp, Fp2, Fp6 support for BW6-761
* Add G1 for BW6-761
* Prepare to support G2 twists on the same field as G1
* Remove a useless dependent type for lines
* Implement G2 for BW6-761
* Fix Line leftover
* Clear cofactor in BN254 G2 testgen and frobenius
* Implement G2 endomorphism acceleration in Sage
* Somewhat working accelerated scalar mul G2 (2.2x) faster
- OK for BN254_Snarks
- Some test failing for BLS12-381
* Fix negative miniscalars by adding an extra bit of encoding
* Cleanup accel params
* Small recoding optimizations
* Fix 8x bigger than necessary encoding size of miniscalars in scalar mul
* initial windowed GLV-SAC implementation
* Simplify table encoding to match k0 without flipping bits
* Implement double-width field multiplication for double-width towering
* Fp2 mul acceleration via double-width lazy reduction (pure Nim)
* Inline assembly for basic add and sub
* Use 2 registers instead of 12+ for ASM conditional copy
* Prepare assembly for extended multiprecision multiplication support
* Add assembly for mul
* initial implementation of assembly reduction
* stash current progress of assembly reduction
* Fix clobbering issue, only P256 comparison remain buggy
* Fix asm montgomery reduction for NIST P256 as well
* MULX/ADCX/ADOX multi-precision multiplication
* MULX/ADCX/ADOX reduction v1
* Add (deactivated) assembly for double-width substraction + rework benches
* Add bench to nimble and deactivate double-width for now. slower than classic
* Fix x86-32 running out of registers for mul
* Clang needs to be at v9 to support flag output constraints (Xcode 11.4.2 / OSX Catalina)
* 32-bit doesn't have enough registers for ASM mul
* Fix again Travis Clang 9 issues
* LLVM 9 is not whitelisted in travis
* deactivated assembler with travis clang
* syntax error
* another
* ...
* missing space, yeah ...
* Proof-of-Concept Assembly code generator
* Tag inline per procedure so we can easily track the tradeoff on tower fields
* Implement Assembly for modular addition (but very curious off-by-one)
* Fix off-by one for moduli with non msb set
* Stash (super fast) alternative but still off by carry
* Fix GCC optimizing ASM away
* Save 1 register to allow compiling for BLS12-381 (in the GMP test)
* The compiler cannot find enough registers if the ASM file is not compiled with -O3
* Add modsub
* Add field negation
* Implement no-carry Assembly optimized field multiplication
* Expose UseX86ASM to the EC benchmark
* omit frame pointer to save registers instead of hardcoding -O3. Also ensure early clobber constraints for Clang
* Prepare for assembly fallback
* Implement fallback for CPU that don't support ADX and BMI2
* Add CPU runtime detection
* Update README closes#66
* Remove commented out code
* Split elliptic curve tests to better use parallel testing
* Add support for printing points on G2
* Implement multiplication and division by optimal sextic non-residue (BLS12-381)
* Implement modular square root in 𝔽p2
* Support EC add and EC double on G2 (for BLS12-381)
* Support G2 divisive twists with non-unit sextic-non-residue like BN254 snarks
* Add EC G2 bench
* cleanup some unused warnings
* Reorg the tests for parallelization and to avoid instantiating huge files
* Add MultiScalar recoding from "Efficient and Secure Algorithms for GLV-Based Scalar Multiplication" by Faz et al
* precompute cube root of unity - Add VM precomputation of Fp - workaround upstream bug https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/14585
* Add the φ-accelerated lookup table builder
* Add a dedicated bithacks file
* cosmetic import consistency
* Build the φ precompute table with n-1 EC additions instead of 2^(n-1) additions
* remove binary
* Add the GLV precomputations to the sage scripts
* You can't avoid it, bigint multiplication is needed at one point
* Add bigint multiplication discarding some low words
* Implement the lattice decomposition in sage
* Proper decomposition for BN254
* Prepare the code for a new scalar mul
* We compile, and now debugging hunt
* More helpers to debug GLV scalar Mul
* Fix conditional negation
* Endomorphism accelerated scalar mul working for BN254 curve
* Implement endomorphism acceleration for BLS12-381 (needed cofactor clearing of the point)
* fix nimble test script after bench rename
* Add sage script for BN254
* Implement (failing) scalar multiplication tests
* Add a first test against sagemath
* Finish the tests against SAGE for BN254
* Add significant test coverage of scalar multiplication with reference checks for BN254_Snarks and BLS12_381
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