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	39.94s	16.80s	25.87s	9.32s	N/A	N/A
10x avg	18.93s	9.67s	14.63s	5.87s	6.81s	2.51s
Witcalc	2.27s	<---	1.37s	<---	2.43s	<---

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 v0.35.0 (2a0d211b92d002fa75855d4ba27267f8892dd52c) REQUIRES BB v0.57.0

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

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