v1.0.0-rc.1

This release consists primarily of performance optimizations on the STARK aggregation (recursion) program and chips, and the performance of the VM memory during execution and trace generation.

What's Changed

• feat(prof): add aggregate metric output in Bencher JSON format by @jonathanpwang in #1315
• perf: Write directly into access adapter chips rather than via buffer by @zlangley in #1317
• fix(prof): benchmark output formatting and deserialization by @jonathanpwang in #1321
• perf: Remove touch address for VolatileMemory by @zlangley in #1323
• perf: More efficient touch_range by @zlangley in #1322
• [chore] Add more cycle tracker for hint by @nyunyunyunyu in #1325
• chore: add OpenVM favicon and logo svgs by @moixagg in #1333
• [perf] VerifyBatch direct hint by @nyunyunyunyu in #1328
• [perf] Store blocks in a potentially smarter way by @Golovanov399 in #1335
• fix(test): hint_load test by @jonathanpwang in #1337
• [perf] Optimize hint for Var/Felt by @nyunyunyunyu in #1330
• perf: Compute initial memory Merkle tree using multiple threads by @zlangley in #1341
• chore: update primitive crate to enable serde std by @jonathanpwang in #1343
• [perf] Use Vec instead of BTreeMap in tree_from_memory by @Golovanov399 in #1338
• [perf] Make set_range and range_vec faster via unsafe by @Golovanov399 in #1340
• perf: optimize poseidon by @MonkeyKing-1 in #1344
• [perf] opened_values direct hint by @nyunyunyunyu in #1347
• chore: Prefer log_height to height by @zlangley in #1351
• perf: trivial opt to reduce alloc in recursion by @jonathanpwang in #1352
• perf: parallelize persistent memory finalize by @jonathanpwang in #1356
• fix: Check shape of inputs by @zlangley in #1350
• chore: bump workspace version to v1.0.0-rc.1 by @jonathanpwang in #1359
• chore: add code comment clarifying reduced opening by @jonathanpwang in #1358

New Contributors

• @moixagg made their first contribution in #1333

Full Changelog: v1.0.0-rc.0...v1.0.0-rc.1