- Bump rust version to `nightly-2025-07-02` because some of the nightly features we were using have been stabilized.
- Introduce feature `disk_cache` which enables caching to disk. Each time an artifact is retrieved from the cache it will be read and deserialized. On a cache miss the artifact will be created, serialized and stored to disk.
- Introduce feature `mem_cache` which enables caching to memory. All cached artifacts are kept in memory after they are created. The mem cache implementation avoids cloning of artifacts by extending their lifetime to `'static`. This is `unsafe` code, but I argue that this usage is safe.
- Add a `build.rs`
- When the feature `disk_cache` is enabled, the `build.rs` will inject env variables to the process with the git commit information, which is used to index the cached artifacts
- Replace all previous cached artifacts from `LazyStatic` methods that call the cache API
- Derive `Serialize, Deserialize` for all `*Target` types so that they can be serialized for caching to disk
- Add finer level of caching: now we cache the `CircuitData` and `VerifierData` independently. The reason for this is that `CircuitData` is a very big artifact which is not needed for verification. So by only accessing `VerifierData` in verification we don't pay a big overhead for reading from disk and deserializing
- Add missing artifacts to the cache: like the `CircuitData` for the `MainPod` indexed by `Params`
- Add helper types to serialize and deserialize `CircuitData`, `CommonData` and `VerifierData` with the set of gates and generators used in the recursive MainPod circuit
- Tweak the ids of our custom gates so that they remain unique when their generic parameters change
- Bugfix: several tests were using the standard `vd_set` but were using MainPod circuits with non-default parameters. This was working before because there was a bug: the MainPod circuit was reporting that the used verifier data was the standard one instead of picking the one corresponding to it's own Params.
Summary of breaking changes:
- One and only one of the features `mem_cache` or `disk_cache` need to be enabled. By default it's `mem_cache`
- To enable the `disk_cache` you need to disable the default features like this: `--no-default-features --features=backend_plonky2,zk,disk_cache`
- Removed `DEFAULT_PARAMS`, instead use `Params::default()`
- Removed `STANDARD_REC_MAIN_POD_CIRCUIT_DATA`, instead use `cache_get_standard_rec_main_pod_common_circuit_data`
- The library is now using `nightly-2025-07-02`. Some rust language features are unstable in previous versions.
In this commit I remove all `*Gadget` types and instead implement the naming convention defined here https://github.com/0xPARC/pod2/issues/181#issuecomment-3051954321
The biggest changes can be summarized by:
- a) Removal of `*Gadget` types and their `eval_*` methods in favour of `verb_object_circuit` functions.
- b) The above functions don't create targets that need to be witness-assigned later. Instead they receive those as arguments. This clearly shows what's the circuit input and output.
I'm specially happy about the changes from b), I think they make the flow of data in the circuit more clear.
Missing things that I did not address in this PR
- The RecursiveCircuit still uses some old naming conventions like `build`.
- We have some `*Target` types that have methods that define constraints. I think we can keep those as they are convenient and I don't see them as strongly breaking the new convention: I see them as the object-oriented way to apply the convention. In those cases the `object` can be omitted from the method when it's implied by the type name, and the `_circuit` suffix doesn't appear because it's implied by the fact that the type is a `*Target`. Examples are: `SignatureTarget::verify -> BoolTarget`, `StatementTarget::has_native_type -> BoolTarget` or `OperationTypeTarget::as_custom -> (BoolTarget, HashOutTarget, Target)`.
The PodSigner trait was taking `&mut self` in the `sign` method, but the
signer doesn't need mutation in the Shcnorr implementation. Remove the
`mut`.
Previously the PodProver trait was also taking `&mut self` in the
`prove` method, and we had many tests creating a `mut Prover/mut
MockProver`. Remove all those `mut`.
Breaking change: `PodSigner` trait method `sign` replaces `&mut self` by
`&self`
* containers: add method to create new {Dict,Set,Array} with custom max_depth
* add vds_tree computation, update tree circuit interface
* add VDTree struct, add DEFAULT_VD_TREE, integrate it with MainPod,EmptyPod,frontend,etc.
* adapt frontend/serialization tests to new containers field (max_depth)
* adapt interfaces to allow using custom vd_tree in frontend & backend constructors
* rename VDTree to VDSet (and derivate namings too)
* containers 'new' always with param 'max_depth', use params.max_depth_mt_containers instead of the global constant MAX_DEPTH
* adapt after rebasing the branch to main latest changes
* apply review suggestions from @ed255
* use emptypod vd_mt_proofs (using vd_set as circuit input), merge the two existing set_targets methods of MainPodVerifyTarget
* document VDSet & vds_root
* calculate MainPod id in a dynamic-friendly way
The MainPod id is now calculated with front padding and a fixed size
independent of max_public_statements so that introduction gadgets can be
verified by a MainPod while paying only for the number of statements
they use. This is because with front padding of none-statements we can
precompute the poseidon state corresponding to absorbing all the padding
statements and only pay constraints for the non-padding statements.
The id is calculated as follows:
`id = hash(serialize(reverse(statements || none-statements)))`
* add time feature and disable timing by default
* apply suggestions from @arnaucube
* link issues in todos
* migrate from anyhow to thiserror (#190). pending polish error msgs
* Add backtrace and compartmentalize errors
- Include backtraces in the errors we generate. To get this we can't
just return a literal enum, because the backtrace requires a call.
- Related to the previous point: add methods to create errors so
we can include the backtrace conveniently without changing too much
the syntax. So instead of `Err(Error::KeyNotFound(key))` (literal
enum) it will be `Err(Error::key_not_found(key))` (method call)
- Each error should be local to its scope, and each scope should
only return its own error.
- The merkle tree should return `TreeError` and not Error
- The middleware should return `MiddlewareError` and not Error
- With a global Error we can't easily include backend/frontend types in
the error fields, so declare a `BackendError` and a `FrontendError`
and follow the pattern from the previous point
- The Pod traits should be able to return backend errors and will be
used in the frontend; for that we change them to use trait object
Error: `dyn std::error::Error`
* fix error
* apply suggestions from @arnaucube
* rename XError and XResult to Error and Result
* reorg signature
* make frontend custom error more ergonomic
* remove unnecessary feature
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Co-authored-by: Eduard S. <eduardsanou@posteo.net>
* unify fe/be NativeOp and NativePred
* remove Origin in favour of PodId
* Combine string and hash in Key
* use middleware::AnchoredKey in frontend
* merge frontend/middleware types
* refactor custom predicates
* clean up a bit
* fix middleware custom tests
* clean up
* clean up 2
* add acronyms in typos list
* add boolean selector to the MerkleProofGadget, to allow skipping proof verifications when all the slots are not used (eg. in the SignedPod circuit)
* move existing signedpod's circuits draft to its own file
* implement SignedPodVerify circuit
