* Bump to arkworks-0.4.0

* Replace remaining usages of `msm_bigint` with `msm_unchecked`

Using `msm_unchecked` instead of `msm_bigint` allows to delete the BigInt conversion code by letting the library take care of it.

* feat: faster sum check prover and multilinear kzg batching open

* fix: add comment about why we combine polys that have the same opening point

* fix: remove the unnecessary last eval increment

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* modify readme

* fix typo

* address comments

* minor

Updates the requirements on [criterion](https://github.com/bheisler/criterion.rs) to permit the latest version.
- [Release notes](https://github.com/bheisler/criterion.rs/releases)
- [Changelog](https://github.com/bheisler/criterion.rs/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md)
- [Commits](https://github.com/bheisler/criterion.rs/compare/0.3.0...0.4.0)

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Make scripts fail out on error

* update nix to flake

* add nix sanity check cronjob

Bump Swatinem/rust-cache from 1 to 2

Bump styfle/cancel-workflow-action from 0.9.1 to 0.11.0

* cherry-pick the commit and fix clippy

* fix multi-open test

* fix srs_gen test

This reverts commit f16db389e3.

Parallelization optimizations

* remove sid pcs evals

* minor optimization + more timers

* fix bench.rs

* fix script

* fix rayon bug

* simplify high degree tests

* temporarily turnoff a bench subset

* minor

* uncomment

* minor fix

* comment

* uncomment

* minor fix

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* wip we need to be able to do batch opening for different poly sizes or pad poly with zeros

* fix small public inputs. Only works for pow2 pubinput

Co-authored-by: Charles Chen <chancharles92@gmail.com>

Bumps [Swatinem/rust-cache](https://github.com/Swatinem/rust-cache) from 1 to 2.
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reduce the number of rounds in batching

- use sumcheck to batch open PCS
- split Prod and witness into two batches
- benchmark code

Bumps [styfle/cancel-workflow-action](https://github.com/styfle/cancel-workflow-action) from 0.9.1 to 0.11.0.
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- add mock circuits
- add vanilla and jellyfish plonk gates
- performance tuning

PCS crate moved to jellyfish repository

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