* 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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* added step test case

* export solidity code

* just set proof's public input as public variables

* make serialization a command line option

* added flag to output solidity

* some changes to the benchmark file

* used gnark cherry picked bug fix

* removed fuzz testing

* added some logging

* more debug messages and test cases for the hint issue

* removed usage of goldilocks reduce

* removed prints

* removed GoldilocksReduce

* removed prints

* added a todo

* some serialization changes

* 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

* initial commit of poseidon bn128

* got challenger working

* deserialize is working

* cleaned up deserialization function a bit

* fixed challenger

* add in the hack to the challenges

* fixed some bugs in poseidon_bn128

* fri verification is working

* some changes for benchmarking

* added decode_block plonky2 data

* initial commit for poseidon_mds_gate

* updated gate test cases

* working poseidon mds gate

* full verifier test case working

* 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