[Performance Improvement] Poseidon with AVX2 (x86-64) #1621
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This is a performance improvement PR targeting x86-64 systems with AVX2 support.
target bottleneck
Currently, Plonky2 does not have a working AVX2 Poseidon hashing implementation. AVX2 has the potential to improve the performance of Poseidon hashing by executing up to 4 64-bit Goldilocks operations at the same time.
how performance is measured
We use current benchmarks in plonky2/benches:
With AVX2 support, we run:
We checked the performance on a c7i.2xlarge AWS instance with AMD CPU with the following specs:
CPU: AMD EPYC 9R14 (16 vCPU)
RAM: 16 GB
OS: Ubuntu 24.04
Compilers: GCC 13
Rust: rustc 1.82.0-nightly
Performance improvement is 10-12%. For example, the output of
RUSTFLAGS="-C target-feature=+avx2" cargo bench --bench=merkle
is: