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perf(continuations): Emit COMMIT output on the Memory bus #759

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perf(continuations): Emit COMMIT output on the Memory bus #759
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Motivation

In continuations, COMMIT output was verified per epoch, needing extra logic to check the right substring of committed bytes and a driver-trusted concatenation of the per-epoch output slices. COMMIT output is really a global property.

What changed

  • The COMMIT chip emits its committed bytes on the shared Memory bus under the existing domain separator (renamed is_registerdomain, now 0 RAM / 1 register / 2 commit) instead of a dedicated Commit bus.
  • Continuations verify the output once, globally: each epoch's COMMIT trace is re-committed in the global proof and root-bound to the epoch proof, and the whole run's output is balanced there and absorbed into the global statement. The per-epoch commit offset and the untrusted slice concatenation are removed, so the aggregate output is verifier-checked.
  • domain is pinned to {0,1} with IS_BIT in MEMW/MEMW_ALIGNED so the commit domain stays disjoint.

@MauroToscano MauroToscano marked this pull request as draft July 2, 2026 14:17
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