* initial commit

* most of the code done

* made global poseidon chip

* changed decompSize and added some panics

* made all gl chip as pointers

* working code

* revert go.mod and go.sum

* cleanup and comments

* cleaned up range checker selection

* renamed gnarkRangeCheckSelector to gnarkRangeCheckerSelector

* addressed PR comment

* addressed overflow issue identified by Veridise

* added some comments

* fixed some comment typos

* restore change made from commit hash 85d20ce and 9617141

* Fixed poseidion hash TOOD in fri/fri.go

* optimized goldilocks

* Another optimization

* Down to 16 million

* Finished TODOs

* gl

* stage 1 optimizations

* working optimized poseidon

* Fix posedion tests

* in progress gate type refactor

* working gates

* working e2e

* hm'

* hm2

* debug saga continues

* more debugging cry

* more debug

* it finally works

* optimizations

* more optimizations

* new changes

* more optimizations

* more cleanup

* some refactoring

* new files

* flattening of packages

* working commit

* more refactor

* more flattening

* more flattening

* more more refactor

* more optimizations

* more optimizations

* more optimizations

* plonk benchmark

* plonk

* fix r1cs

* resolve kevin's comments

* Update goldilocks/base.go

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* Update goldilocks/base.go

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* Update goldilocks/base.go

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* Update goldilocks/quadratic_extension.go

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* added range check for the inputted proof

* removed the go.mod replace directive

* removed some hacky code

* removed duplicate import

* renamed rangecheckQEVariable to rangecheckQE

* resolved conflict

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* gl

* stage 1 optimizations

* working optimized poseidon

* Fix posedion tests

* in progress gate type refactor

* working gates

* working e2e

* hm'

* hm2

* debug saga continues

* more debugging cry

* more debug

* it finally works

* optimizations

* more optimizations

* new changes

* more optimizations

* more cleanup

* some refactoring

* new files

* flattening of packages

* working commit

* more refactor

* more flattening

* more flattening

* more more refactor

* more optimizations

* more optimizations

* more optimizations

* plonk benchmark

* plonk

* fix r1cs

* resolve kevin's comments

* Update goldilocks/base.go

Co-authored-by: Kevin Jue <kjue235@gmail.com>

* Update goldilocks/base.go

Co-authored-by: Kevin Jue <kjue235@gmail.com>

* Update goldilocks/base.go

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* Update goldilocks/quadratic_extension.go

Co-authored-by: Kevin Jue <kjue235@gmail.com>

* fix: resolve kevin's confusion

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