zkVM Benchmarks

Installation

Install Jolt

rustup target add riscv32i-unknown-none-elf

Install Risc Zero

cargo install cargo-binstall
cargo binstall cargo-risczero
cargo risczero install

Install SP1

curl -L https://sp1.succinct.xyz | bash

Follow the instructions outputted by this command then run:

sp1up

Install zkm

wget http://musl.cc/mips-linux-muslsf-cross.tgz
tar -zxvf mips-linux-muslsf-cross.tgz

• Modify ~/.cargo/config:

[target.mips-unknown-linux-musl]
linker = "<path-to>/mips-linux-muslsf-cross/bin/mips-linux-muslsf-gcc"
rustflags = ["--cfg", 'target_os="zkvm"',"-C", "target-feature=+crt-static", "-C", "link-arg=-g"]

Running

To run all benchmarks run:

make bench-all

The benchmark results should be outputted in CSV form in benchmark_outputs.

To run an individual benchmark run make bench-zkm, make bench-jolt, make bench-risczero or make bench-sp1.

Disclaimer

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