* 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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* fix: resolve kevin's confusion

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* cleaned up qe api

* modified goldilocks poseidon to use optimized goldilocks operations

* better comment

* added goldilocks test cases

* some cleanup and comments

* changed poseidon constaints to frontend.Variable

* fixed double cast

* fixed bug in challenger

* make proof with PIS public input

* upgraded to 0.8 gnark

* reduced pow witness

* fixed bug

* fixed test

* fixed bug

* adding profiling

* changed everything to be pointers

* convert remaining poseidon constants

* added the recursive_very_small

* added more outputs for benchmark

* removed unused file

* change field import

* change import of field package

* changed field import

* moved hash to poseidon and some changes to the field package

* changed file structure

* helper functions for coset_interpolation_gate

* coset interpolation gate working

* hard coded the coset gate (for now)

* refactored gate serialization