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While addressing the review suggestion #1765 (comment) (b10c mirror link), I noticed that we don't have an internal benchmark for the variable-time variant of _fe_normalize yet, so this PR adds one. IIUC it's fine to repeatedly apply the operation on the same (already normalized at latest after the first loop iteration) field element for benchmarking purposes and don't put in an effort to reach the final reduction code path, considering how extremely unlikely it is to reach it in practice.

Results on my machine:

$ ./build/bin/bench_internal normalize
Benchmark                     ,    Min(us)    ,    Avg(us)    ,    Max(us)    

field_normalize               ,     0.0103    ,     0.0106    ,     0.0128 
field_normalize_var           ,     0.00545   ,     0.00546   ,     0.00547
field_normalize_weak          ,     0.00352   ,     0.00354   ,     0.00363

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ACK 8b066a4

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ACK 8b066a4

Worth noting that this benchmarks the optimistic path? It makes sense to do so, because the worst-case path is very unlikely to be needed.

@theStack theStack force-pushed the add-field_normalize_var-bench branch from 8b066a4 to 240578e Compare June 4, 2026 17:17
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Worth noting that this benchmarks the optimistic path? It makes sense to do so, because the worst-case path is very unlikely to be needed.

Makes sense, thanks. Added a corresponding comment.

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@real-or-random real-or-random merged commit 0f4a7e6 into bitcoin-core:master Jun 9, 2026
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240578eef bench: add internal benchmark for `secp256k1_fe_normalize_var`
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0d3659c54 use new `_eckey_pubkey_serialize{33,65}` functions in modules (ellswift,musig)
adb76f82e use new `_eckey_pubkey_serialize{33,65}` functions in public API
fc7458ca3 introduce `secp256k1_eckey_pubkey_serialize{33,65}` functions
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b2a95a420 ci: Drop `tags` input for `docker/build-push-action`
122014edb ci: Add `scope` parameter to `cache-{to,from}` options
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