Using `serde_cbor` for now. It's probably far from optimal, as we have many `Vec`s which I assume it will prefix with their lengths, but it's a nice and easy method for now.
* Use built-in `reverse_bits`; remove duplicate `reverse_index_bits`.
* Reduce precomputation time/space complexity from quadratic to linear.
* Several working cache-friendly FFTs.
* Fix to allow FFT of constant polynomial.
* Simplify FFT strategy choice.
* Add PrimeField and CHARACTERISTIC properties to Fields.
* Add faster method for inverse of 2^m.
* Pre-compute some of the roots; tidy up loop iteration.
* Precomputation for both FFT variants.
* Refactor precomputation; add optional parameters; rename some things.
* Unrolled version with zero tail.
* Iterative version of Unrolled precomputation.
* Test zero tail algo.
* Restore default degree.
* Address comments from @dlubarov and @wborgeaud.
* Try to simplify open_plonk and fri_combine_initial a bit more
- Use `alpha.powers()` in `open_plonk` instead of the more "manual" approach
- No more "manually" reducing with `alpha_powers`; now using helper methods for that.
- Renaming & other small tweaks
* Remove type hint
* Feedback
Porting over some code from `old_polynomial`, and changing `ListPolynomialCommitment` to use the newer API.
There's one remaining use of `old_polynomial` for long division; I think that can eventually go away when we switch to doing values-only FRI (unless another use comes up).
Closes#10. This combines Lagrange interpolation with FFTs as mentioned there.
I was previously thinking that all our polynomial encodings might as well just use power-of-two length vectors, so they'll be "FFT-ready", with no need to trim/pad. This sort of breaks that assumption though, as e.g. I think we'll want to compute interpolants with three coefficients in the batch opening argument.
I think we can still skip trimming/padding in most cases, since it the majority of our polynomials will have power-of-two-minus-1 degrees with high probability. But we'll now have one or two uses where that's not the case.
... and other minor refactoring.
`bench_recursion` will be the default bin run by `cargo run`; the otheres can be selected with the `--bin` flag.
We could probably delete some of the other binaries later. E.g. `field_search` might not be useful any more. `bench_fft` should maybe be converted to a benchmark (although there are some pros and cons, e.g. the bench framework has a minimum number of runs, and isn't helpful in testing multi-core performance).
