diff --git a/src/optimizations.md b/src/optimizations.md index 97c8e5c..fbe1b57 100644 --- a/src/optimizations.md +++ b/src/optimizations.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ ## Background -The relation described in [specification of the relation for a Plonkish circuit](https://github.com/daira/plonk-standard/blob/main/relation.md) gives an abstract model of a Plonkish constraint system that is sufficiently expressive, but does not take into account some of the optimizations that are commonly used in Plonkish implementations, such as the use of rotations in Plonkish custom gates. The tradeoff here is that the abstract model allows rows to be arbitrarily reordered. +The relation described in [Specification of the Plonkish Relation](relation.md) gives an abstract model of a Plonkish constraint system that is sufficiently expressive, but does not take into account some of the optimizations that are commonly used in Plonkish implementations, such as the use of rotations in Plonkish custom gates. The tradeoff here is that the abstract model allows rows to be arbitrarily reordered. > It would have been possible to directly include rotations in the constraint system model, but the most obvious ways of doing this would require the circuit programmer to think about copy constraints that don't naturally arise from the intended circuit definition. > diff --git a/src/relation.md b/src/relation.md index 80826f6..fd18250 100644 --- a/src/relation.md +++ b/src/relation.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ - Need to agree on the API between “zkInterface for Plonkish” and the proving system. Specify a general statement that the proving system has to implement. - Section 2 of [[Thomas 2022]](https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/777.pdf) : describes high level API of zk Interface for Plonkish statements -This is intended to be read in conjunction with the [Plonkish backend optimizations](https://github.com/daira/plonk-standard/blob/main/optimizations.md) document, which describes how to compile the abstract constraint system described here into a concrete circuit. +This is intended to be read in conjunction with the [Plonkish Backend Optimizations](optimizations.md) document, which describes how to compile the abstract constraint system described here into a concrete circuit. ## Dependencies