ZKEmail.nr Benchmarks

Benchmarking repository for ZKEmail.nr

• M1 Mac 16 gb memory
• 222,783 gate circuit (default [2048-bit DKIM verification circuit - 512 byte header & 1024 byte body])

	Plonk (Browser)	Honk (Browser)	Plonk (NodeJS)	Honk (NodeJS)	Plonk (Native)	Honk (Native)
Cold Start (Single Thread)	89.01s	19.63s	88.26s	20.14s	N/A	N/A
Cold Start (Multithreaded)	22.10s	6.18s	21.51s	6.47s	N/A	N/A
10x avg (Single Thread)	59.50s	16.63s	59.37s	16.90s	6.81s	2.34s
10x avg (Multithreaded)	12.59s	4.23s	12.72s	4.43s	N/A	N/A
Witcalc	.75s	<---	.88s	<---	.90s	<---

Keep in mind that most of cold start cost can be hidden from user if proving backend is initialized eagerly on page load before user reaches proving UX

Running Benchmarks yourself

REQUIRES NARGO v1.0.0.beta

REQUIRES BB v0.66.0

Run ./artifact.sh to recompile the circuit to start off.

Browser (Wasm)

cd browser
yarn
yarn dev
# Click the buttons to prove plonk or honk and see output. Specify iterations and toggle concurrency on / off

NodeJS (Wasm)

cd node
yarn
yarn start

Native

## If you want to rebuild the Prover.toml do this, otherwise skip...
cd browser
yarn
yarn gen_prover_toml
cd ..

# Run Plonk Test (1 iteration)
./native_plonk.sh

# Run Honk Test (1 iteration)
./native_honk.sh