libtorsion VS CPython

Most of the crypto is from my more general crypto library libtorsion: https://github.com/bcoin-org/libtorsion

I originally wanted to vendor my libtorsion code and link to it, but it felt clunky since libtorsion pulls in a ton of crypto that bitcoin doesn't need. Also, since I was focusing on just a few algorithms, it gave me the opportunity to optimize a lot of them (in particular, the ECC backend was optimized for secp256k1 whereas in libtorsion it supports all kinds of curves).

Because of all of this, there's probably some leftover comments. That comment isn't true anymore. rand.c is definitely used internally for libmako, just not libtorsion.

edit: fixed link.

The 2-by-1 and 3-by-2 division functions described in the paper result in a very measurable speedup in my code. I think you're confusing those with the reciprocal calculation itself (which can be computed with a lookup table). I agree that part doesn't really lend itself to any significant performance benefit and is probably better calculated with a single hardware division instead.

I feel it necessary to point out that the 3-by-2 division actually has multiple benefits which are easy to miss:

1. The quotient loop can be skipped as I mentioned.

2. The "Add back" step is less likely to be triggered.

3. Since a 2-word remainder is computed with the division, you can skip 2 iterations on the multiply+subtract step.

My reimplementation of GMP documents both the 2-by-1 and 3-by-2 divisions pretty thoroughly[1][2].

[1] https://github.com/bcoin-org/libtorsion/blob/master/src/mpi....

[2] https://github.com/bcoin-org/libtorsion/blob/master/src/mpi....

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