Unable to stop stdout from flooding screen

[derekzx]

Generating any gadget will flood my stdout with multiple output showing how the constraint system is generated. Is there any way to stop the stdout from being flooded?

Example:

       (enter) Call to alt_bn128_exp_by_neg_z            [             ] (12340.4238s x0.00 from start)
              (leave) Call to alt_bn128_exp_by_neg_z            [0.0012s x0.99] (12340.4249s x0.00 from start)
            (leave) Call to alt_bn128_final_exponentiation_last_chunk   [0.0123s x0.30] (12340.4252s x0.00 from start)
          (leave) Call to alt_bn128_final_exponentiation        [0.0126s x0.31] (12340.4252s x0.00 from start)
        (leave) Check same coefficients were used       [0.0202s x0.53] (12340.4252s x0.00 from start)
      (leave) Online pairing computations               [0.0878s x0.61] (12340.4252s x0.00 from start)
    (leave) Call to r1cs_ppzksnark_online_verifier_weak_IC      [0.0879s x0.61] (12340.4252s x0.00 from start)
  (leave) Call to r1cs_ppzksnark_online_verifier_strong_IC      [0.1014s x0.53] (12340.4253s x0.00 from start)
(leave) Call to r1cs_ppzksnark_verifier_strong_IC       [0.1084s x0.55] (12340.4253s x0.00 from start)

[dcmiddle]

Hi, I ran into that too. I found that you can squelch the libff profiling output by setting this global within your own application like this: libff::inhibit_profiling_info = true;

There are other counter outputs that come from a multiexp.tcc that has been copied around a few places. There's no build or runtime conditionals around those so you have to comment them out manually in your own dependency tree.

Hope that helps, Dan

[derekzx]

Thank you very much for the help