refactor merge in domain tests

Signed-off-by: 0xKanekiKen <100861945+0xKanekiKen@users.noreply.github.com>

Domain separator during merge

Signed-off-by: 0xKanekiKen <100861945+0xKanekiKen@users.noreply.github.com>

Reexport publiccoin & publiccoinerror from winterfell

Signed-off-by: 0xKanekiKen <100861945+0xKanekiKen@users.noreply.github.com>

Signed-off-by: 0xKanekiKen <100861945+0xKanekiKen@users.noreply.github.com>

Implement PartialEq and Eq traits on Merkle structs

Tracking PR for next release

Minor updates to main and benchmark README files

feat: add simple sparse merkle tree

This commit moves the previous implementation of `SparseMerkleTree` from
miden-core to this crate.

It also include a couple of new tests, a bench suite, and a couple of
minor fixes. The original API was preserved to maintain compatibility
with `AdviceTape`.

closes #21

Benchmark instructions for hash functions

doc: benchmark hash functions

fix nits

fix: misc. nits

fix: nits and link

fix additional nits

fix: nits

Improve BLAKE3 sequential hashing performance

Optimize BLAKE3 Sequential Hashing

See https://github.com/0xPolygonMiden/crypto/pull/29#discussion_r1045108928 where it was suggested.

Signed-off-by: Anjan Roy <hello@itzmeanjan.in>

Signed-off-by: Anjan Roy <hello@itzmeanjan.in>

Signed-off-by: Anjan Roy <hello@itzmeanjan.in>

feat: blake3 benchmarks

Tracking PR for v0.1 release

Update README file in preparation for v0.1 release

Clean up crate interfaces in preparation for v0.1 release

feat: add blake3 160, 192 & 256 bits

closes #6

Implement ord for rpo

closes #8

feat: benchmark RPO

feat: add no-std support

closes #5

Rpo

feat(ci): add script to ci