Benchmarking panics when generating the recursion circuit
Nashtare opened this issue · comments
Hi! I wanted to try plonky but I am unable to run the benchmarks properly. The "Generating inner proof" part takes forever to finish, and the part "generating the recursion circuit" always panics and fails with the following error (running on Ubuntu18.04 with 8GB RAM, Intel i7-9750H 2.6GHz):
Generating inner circuit
Finished in 156.286423678sGenerating inner witness
Finished in 0.366971488sGenerating inner proof
Finished in 2920.980774765sVerifying inner proof
Finished in 75.733380387sGenerating recursion circuit...
thread 'main' panicked at 'index out of bounds: the len is 0 but the index is 4', /home/workspace/plonky/src/plonk_recursion.rs:460:19
I saw you were mentioning on https://www.plonk.cafe/t/plonky-recursive-proofs-based-on-plonk-and-halo/63 that you were obtaining benchmarks of 10 sec for verifier circuit of size 2^14, how did you get those results? I saw also that the test test_proof_trivial_recursive() in tests/prove_and_verify_recursive.rs was flawky and hence disabled, would that be linked to it? Thanks!
Hi Robin,
Sorry about that -- our code base is rather unstable at the moment, with multiple known bugs. We're working on a partial rewrite to address the known issues, clean up the API and add some new features.
To get benchmark data, we could look back to an old version like 33b85e6. Those old builds aren't entirely correct -- we later noticed a couple mistakes in the verification circuit -- but the benchmarks run without errors, at least for me.
Regarding the slowness, did you run with --release? Our debug builds have no optimizations configured so field operations are a lot slower.
Hi Daniel,
Thanks for the answer! I was not running with --release, my bad (I wouldn't have expected such discrepancies in the running time).
I'll check the older version in the meantime!
Best,