* feat: Integrate flamegraph profiling in benchmarks

- Introduce "flamegraph" feature flag for optional profiling integration
- Add benchmark profiling support in `compressed_snark` and `recursive_snark` groups
- Update Cargo.toml with `pprof` and `cfg-if` dependencies

* ci: Build benches to make sure they don't bit-rot

- Integrate bench build step into GitHub Actions workflow

* Improve performance of recursive

* Fix the test after rebase

* Fix CI/CD warnings

* Update benchmark to work with new interface of RecursiveSNARK

* Fix example to make sure step 1 is correct

* refactor: Removes unneeded pass-by value in verification

- Update function arguments to use borrowing instead of passing ownership

* Resolve the conflict with upstream branch

* refactor: Avoid extra input cloning in RecursiveSNARK::new

* Update criterion to 0.5.1 to prevent the panic with its plot

* Fix benchmark issue with new recursive_snark instance

* Fix CI/CD warning with

* refactor: Make mutation easier to observe

- Utilize mutable references to Points for better memory management

* chore: Downgrade clippy dependency for compatibility

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* test: add test for pp computation

* bench: add a digest computation bench

* refactor: Optimize digest computation and update tests

- Remove flate2 dependency from codebase
- Replace ZlibEncoder with bincode::serialize in compute_digest function
- Update test_pp_digest expected results to align with compute_digest changes

Bench results:
```
compute_digest          time:   [1.4451 s 1.4571 s 1.4689 s]
                        change: [-29.357% -27.854% -26.573%] (p = 0.00 < 0.05)
                        Performance has improved.
```

- Update neptune dependency to version 10.0.0

* chore: update to ff/group 0.13 and associated dependencies

Updates:
- zkcrypto/ff, zkcrypto/group to 0.13,
- bellperson to 0.25,
- pasta_curves to 0.5.1, and removes the fil_pasta_curves fork
- pasta-msm should no longer need a fork (WIP)

Adapts source in function, mostly for const usage and API updates.

* expose the portable feature of pasta-MSM

* update pointer to pasta-msm

* Clippy

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* a more optimal preprocessing SNARK

* update version

* cleanup; address clippy

* Ability to collect evaluation claims

* defer polynomial evaluation claims

* address cargo clippy

* spark-based commitments to R1CS matrices

* small fixes

* fix padding

* update version

* generalize the slice implementation

* bump the version

* simplify transcript engine usage

* update version

* checkpoint

* simplify further

* checkpoint

* gens --> ck

* update benches

* address clippy

* cleanup

* update version

* pass only one multilinear polynomial to EE

* update version

* simplify trait requirements

* update version

* enable neptune gpu hashing

* Disable clippy on GPU

make spartan generic over the evaluation engine

update version

disable Wasm CI check

* Clippy with Rust 1.67

* Clippy/Rustfmt with Rust 1.66.1

* Bump commit.

* Bump commit.

* (WIP) Add serde support

* Minor fixes

* Use neptune const generics

* Use git patches

* Impl serde for CompressedSNARK

* Update dependencies, revert to typenum

* Formatting

* Update bellperson-nonnative patch

* Cleanup

* Remove bellperson-nonnative fork

* Switch back to fil_pasta_curves

* Update forked dependencies

* Cleanup

* Remove unnecessary patch

* Update to lurk-pasta-msm

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* Add Wasm support

* Use SeedableRng for Wasm randomness

* Fix tests

* Formatting

* WASM target support

* fast multiexp for WASM

* add parallelisation for MSM

https://github.com/zcash/halo2/blob/main/halo2_proofs/src/arithmetic.rs

* update crate versions

* fix clippy issues

* cargo fmt

* optimize ECC ops

* update version

* integrate with neptune's sponge

* fix clippy warning

* add checks to ensure at most one squeeze

* add checks to ensure at most one squeeze

* update crates to their latest version

* use latest pasta-msm

* rename methods for better clarity

* rename

* Bump version

* support non-determinism with small changes to the interface

* update benches to use the new API

* add an example that exercises non-deterministic advice at each step of recursion

* tiny rename

* Address clippy; update version

* Add asserts for constraint count

* switch to Standard strength

* update version and README

* move tests to bellperson adapter and remove tests folder; make bellperson adapter private

* add benches

* fix error

* put snark in a black_box when benchmarking verification time

* fix error in benches

* use pasta_msm crate for MSM

* add repr-c to pasta_curves

* add +stable

* update pasta-msm version

* Fix dependencies

* Replace rug with num-bigint

* implement transcript methods for various types

* address clippy

* add shape to transcript

* fix build

* switch to stable

* remove send + sync

* introduce a new associative type to capture any form of preprocessing on group elements

* update pasta_curves version

* simplify trait requirements

* fix clippy