* spark-based commitments to R1CS matrices

* small fixes

* fix padding

* update version

* generalize the slice implementation

* bump the version

* typo fix

* Comment typos fix

* Update README.md

* Comment typo fix

* 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

use a macro to remove redundant code

add a test case

* 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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Co-authored-by: porcuquine <porcuquine@users.noreply.github.com>

* 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

* make ecc gadgets defined over Group rather than PrimeField

* use curve parameters from Group trait

* optimize ECC ops

* update version

* optimize add constraints

* optimize double by rewriting a constraint involving an inverted element

* support for arbitrary arity for F

* revive MinRoot example

* revive tests

* revive ecdsa

* remove unused code

* use None instead of Some(1u32)

* revive benches

* fix clippy warning

* 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

* optimize MinRoot constraint system to not allocate unneeded advice variables

run with multiple MinRoot iterations per Nova step in a loop

* fix clippy warnings

* avoid creating commitments to zero vectors

* reduce the number of constraints in each iteration from 4 to 3

* rename methods for better clarity

* rename

* Bump version

* vary the number of constraints in the step circuit

* use a different starting state

* fix name

* Add 14

* ecdsa signature proof

* use the library-provided default circuit

* small reorg

Co-authored-by: Srinath Setty <srinath@microsoft.com>

use a default implementation for step circuit