Performance of Poseidon

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Performance of Poseidon

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Multiplying by MDS Matrix in the Constraint system

Adding the simplify method seems to have sped this up and we are now able to use the prescribed amount of rounds. Will keep it open, once extensive tests are ran, confirming that this is no longer a problem

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Performance results on the constraint system

Statement : "Given y, I know the pre-image x such that y = h(x)" where h is the poseidon hash function.

Proving time is 222.996317ms
Verification time is 73.399651ms

Benchmark can be simulated on the following branch: https://github.com/dusk-network/Hades252/tree/bench_pre_image

To prove the blind bid statement that we use in the consensus:

Proving time is 854.326017ms
Verification time is 284.990527ms

Benchmark can be simulated on the following branch: https://github.com/dusk-network/Hades252/tree/bench_blindbid

CPU : 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7