Replace rug crate with num-bigint #109
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This PR replaces the use of the
rug
crate inforks/Spartan-t256/circ_fields
withnum-bigint
to remove the dependency ongmp-mpfr-sys
.The
rug
crate is a wrapper aroundgmp-mpfr-sys
, which in turn wraps the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library (GMP). While GMP is a high-performance C library for arbitrary-precision arithmetic, it includes CPU-specific assembly code that:x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
toolchain due to its reliance on a GNU toolchain during compilationChanges
rug
withnum-bigint
throughoutcirc_fields
num-bigint
dependency from=0.4.3
to^0.4
to allow the latest compatible 0.4.x version to be used0.4.5
, which introduces themodinverse
method needed to match functionality previously provided byrug
0.4.6
rug
functionally not present innum-bigint