Class bench

[mstraka100]

Benchmarks for class groups

• Made a new file for benchmarking class group functions because the rsa functions did not generalize to groups formed from triples of integers
• As benchmarks exist in a separate crate from the source code, benchmarking internal private functions is done by conditionally compiling public wrappers for the functions on supplying the "benchmark" feature to the compiler, as in "cargo bench --features benchmark"
• For easy filtering group benchmarks are prefaced with "group", and rsa/class groups contain "rsa" and "class" respectively

[whaatt]

just curious, what is the purpose of the bench_x functions? (as opposed to calling .reduce() and .normalize() directly)

[mstraka100]

just curious, what is the purpose of the bench_x functions? (as opposed to calling .reduce() and .normalize() directly)

.reduce() and .normalize() should be private to ClassElem, and our benchmarks exist in a separate crate so they can't be accessed. Making public functions that compile conditionally lets them be accessed for benchmarking only

Open to cleaner solutions but couldn't think of any