cairo-vm is a Rust implementation of the Cairo VM. Cairo (CPU Algebraic Intermediate Representation) is a programming language for writing provable programs, where one party can prove to another that a certain computation was executed correctly without the need for this party to re-execute the same program.
Context: this method is used in some of the bootloader hints, see here.
We are currently taking out the bootloader hints out of our fork of cairo-vm so we need this method to be public. This is among the last changes required to get this done and use upstream cairo-vm (probably one more change related to the initial value of exec_scopes but that's it).
Alternative solutions:
Implement this hint in cairo-vm directly: this hint comes with quite a lot of code that is specific to the bootloader. I think it's simpler to make finalize() public, maybe with a disclaimer explaining why it's public to avoid mistakes.
Context: this method is used in some of the bootloader hints, see here.
We are currently taking out the bootloader hints out of our fork of
cairo-vmso we need this method to be public. This is among the last changes required to get this done and use upstreamcairo-vm(probably one more change related to the initial value ofexec_scopesbut that's it).Alternative solutions:
finalize()public, maybe with a disclaimer explaining why it's public to avoid mistakes.Checklist