M .github/pull_request_template.md → .github/pull_request_template.md

@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ - Repo forked and branch created from `next` according to naming convention.
 - Commit messages and codestyle follow [conventions](./CONTRIBUTING.md).
 - Relevant issues are linked in the PR description.
 - Tests added for new functionality.
-- Documentation/comments updated according to changes.+- Documentation/comments updated according to changes.

M CONTRIBUTING.md → CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 ### Branching
 - The current active branch is `next`. Every branch with a fix/feature must be forked from `next`.
 
-- The branch name should contain a short issue/feature description separated with hyphens [(kebab-case)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Kebab_case). 
+- The branch name should contain a short issue/feature description separated with hyphens [(kebab-case)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Kebab_case).
 
     For example, if the issue title is `Fix functionality X in component Y` then the branch name will be something like: `fix-x-in-y`.
 

M benches/README.md → benches/README.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Miden VM Hash Functions 
+# Miden VM Hash Functions
 In the Miden VM, we make use of different hash functions. Some of these are "traditional" hash functions, like `BLAKE3`, which are optimized for out-of-STARK performance, while others are algebraic hash functions, like `Rescue Prime`, and are more optimized for a better performance inside the STARK. In what follows, we benchmark several such hash functions and compare against other constructions that are used by other proving systems. More precisely, we benchmark:
 
 * **BLAKE3** as specified [here](https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3-specs/blob/master/blake3.pdf) and implemented [here](https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3) (with a wrapper exposed via this crate).
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ ### Comparison
 We benchmark the above hash functions using two scenarios. The first is a 2-to-1 $(a,b)\mapsto h(a,b)$ hashing where both $a$, $b$ and $h(a,b)$ are the digests corresponding to each of the hash functions.
 The second scenario is that of sequential hashing where we take a sequence of length $100$ field elements and hash these to produce a single digest. The digests are $4$ field elements in a prime field with modulus $2^{64} - 2^{32} + 1$ (i.e., 32 bytes) for Poseidon, Rescue Prime and RPO, and an array `[u8; 32]` for SHA3 and BLAKE3.
 
-#### Scenario 1: 2-to-1 hashing `h(a,b)` 
+#### Scenario 1: 2-to-1 hashing `h(a,b)`
 
 | Function            | BLAKE3 | SHA3    | Poseidon  | Rp64_256  | RPO_256 |
 | ------------------- | ------ | --------| --------- | --------- | ------- |
@@ -46,4 +46,4 @@ To run the benchmarks for Rescue Prime, Poseidon and SHA3, clone the following [repository](https://github.com/Dominik1999/winterfell.git) as above, then checkout the `hash-functions-benches` branch, and from the root directory of the repo run the following:
 
 ```
 cargo bench hash
-```+```