perf: lazy field addition in Kotlin — 10-16% faster across all operations
Remove reduceSelf from FieldP.add, making it lazy (same approach as the C implementation). Values may be in [0, 2^256) between additions. Safety analysis: - mul/sqr: reduceWide handles any 256-bit input ✓ - neg: added reduceSelf before P - a (prevents underflow) ✓ - half: added reduceSelf before conditional add P ✓ - sub: already adds P back on borrow (self-normalizing) ✓ - isZero/cmp: called on sub outputs (normalized) or after mul ✓ - verifySchnorrCore: added reduceSelf before Jacobian x-check ✓ - toBytes: only called on toAffine outputs (from mul, normalized) ✓ JVM benchmark results (ops/sec, HotSpot C2): pubkeyCreate: 32,096 → 37,211 (+15.9%) signXOnly: 31,149 → 34,507 (+10.8%) sign: 16,137 → 17,822 (+10.4%) verify: 12,733 → 14,027 (+10.2%) verifyFast: 14,734 → 15,449 (+4.9%) ECDH: 10,975 → 12,102 (+10.3%) batch(200): 91,611 → 102,354 (+11.7%) The improvement is larger than expected (10-16% vs estimated 6%) because HotSpot's branch prediction overhead for reduceSelf (virtual dispatch + 4 Long comparisons) is higher than the ~2.5ns estimated for native code. https://claude.ai/code/session_011KVZhDcV2G7idNWEBz12GY
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@@ -59,6 +59,14 @@ internal object FieldP {
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// ==================== Core arithmetic ====================
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/**
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* out = a + b. LAZY: does NOT reduce the result.
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* Values may be in [0, 2^256) after this call. This is safe because:
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* - mul/sqr reduce any 256-bit input via reduceWide
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* - neg normalizes its input before P - a
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* - half normalizes its input before the conditional add
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* Only explicit reduceSelf is needed before isZero/cmp/toBytes.
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*/
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fun add(
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out: Fe4,
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a: Fe4,
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@@ -78,7 +86,9 @@ internal object FieldP {
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}
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}
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}
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reduceSelf(out)
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// No reduceSelf — lazy addition for performance.
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// Result may be in [P, 2^256) but this is handled by
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// downstream mul/sqr/neg/half/reduceSelf.
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}
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/**
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@@ -164,6 +174,8 @@ internal object FieldP {
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out: Fe4,
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a: Fe4,
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) {
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// Normalize input: P - a underflows if a > P (from lazy add)
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reduceSelf(a)
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if (a.isZero()) {
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out.l0 = 0L
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out.l1 = 0L
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@@ -190,6 +202,9 @@ internal object FieldP {
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out: Fe4,
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a: Fe4,
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) {
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// Normalize: half conditionally adds P; if a is in [P, 2^256) from lazy add,
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// a+P could exceed 2^256. Normalize ensures a < P first.
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reduceSelf(a)
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val mask = -(a.l0 and 1L) // all 1s if odd, all 0s if even
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val p0 = P0 and mask // P[0] masked; P[1..3] are -1, so P[i]&mask = mask
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var s1: Long
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@@ -514,6 +514,8 @@ object Secp256k1 {
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val w = sc.w
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FieldP.sqr(sc.zInv2, sc.entryResult.z, w) // Z²
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FieldP.mul(sc.zInv3, r, sc.zInv2, w) // r·Z²
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// Normalize X before comparison (may be unreduced from lazy fe_add)
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FieldP.reduceSelf(sc.entryResult.x)
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return U256.cmp(sc.entryResult.x, sc.zInv3) == 0
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}
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