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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Claude
2026-04-11 23:59:44 +00:00
parent e474f9b36f
commit ae77935625
2 changed files with 18 additions and 1 deletions
@@ -59,6 +59,14 @@ internal object FieldP {
// ==================== Core arithmetic ====================
/**
* out = a + b. LAZY: does NOT reduce the result.
* Values may be in [0, 2^256) after this call. This is safe because:
* - mul/sqr reduce any 256-bit input via reduceWide
* - neg normalizes its input before P - a
* - half normalizes its input before the conditional add
* Only explicit reduceSelf is needed before isZero/cmp/toBytes.
*/
fun add(
out: Fe4,
a: Fe4,
@@ -78,7 +86,9 @@ internal object FieldP {
}
}
}
reduceSelf(out)
// No reduceSelf — lazy addition for performance.
// Result may be in [P, 2^256) but this is handled by
// downstream mul/sqr/neg/half/reduceSelf.
}
/**
@@ -164,6 +174,8 @@ internal object FieldP {
out: Fe4,
a: Fe4,
) {
// Normalize input: P - a underflows if a > P (from lazy add)
reduceSelf(a)
if (a.isZero()) {
out.l0 = 0L
out.l1 = 0L
@@ -190,6 +202,9 @@ internal object FieldP {
out: Fe4,
a: Fe4,
) {
// Normalize: half conditionally adds P; if a is in [P, 2^256) from lazy add,
// a+P could exceed 2^256. Normalize ensures a < P first.
reduceSelf(a)
val mask = -(a.l0 and 1L) // all 1s if odd, all 0s if even
val p0 = P0 and mask // P[0] masked; P[1..3] are -1, so P[i]&mask = mask
var s1: Long
@@ -514,6 +514,8 @@ object Secp256k1 {
val w = sc.w
FieldP.sqr(sc.zInv2, sc.entryResult.z, w) // Z²
FieldP.mul(sc.zInv3, r, sc.zInv2, w) // r·Z²
// Normalize X before comparison (may be unreduced from lazy fe_add)
FieldP.reduceSelf(sc.entryResult.x)
return U256.cmp(sc.entryResult.x, sc.zInv3) == 0
}