This commit:
+ Adds support for a protocol which enables inter-op between concrete,
tfhe-rs and potentially other contributors to the fhe ecosystem.
+ Gets rid of hand-made serialization in the compiler, and
client/server libs.
+ Refactors client/server libs to allow more pre/post processing of
circuit inputs/outputs.
The protocol is supported by a definition in the shape of a capnp file,
which defines different types of objects among which:
+ ProgramInfo object, which is a precise description of a set of fhe
circuit coming from the same compilation (understand function type
information), and the associated key set.
+ *Key objects, which represent secret/public keys used to
encrypt/execute fhe circuits.
+ Value object, which represent values that can be transferred between
client and server to support calls to fhe circuits.
The hand-rolled serialization that was previously used is completely
dropped in favor of capnp in the whole codebase.
The client/server libs, are refactored to introduce a modular design for
pre-post processing. Reading the ProgramInfo file associated with a
compilation, the client and server libs assemble a pipeline of
transformers (functions) for pre and post processing of values coming in
and out of a circuit. This design properly decouples various aspects of
the processing, and allows these capabilities to be safely extended.
In practice this commit includes the following:
+ Defines the specification in a concreteprotocol package
+ Integrate the compilation of this package as a compiler dependency
via cmake
+ Modify the compiler to use the Encodings objects defined in the
protocol
+ Modify the compiler to emit ProgramInfo files as compilation
artifact, and gets rid of the bloated ClientParameters.
+ Introduces a new Common library containing the functionalities shared
between the compiler and the client/server libs.
+ Introduces a functional pre-post processing pipeline to this common
library
+ Modify the client/server libs to support loading ProgramInfo objects,
and calling circuits using Value messages.
+ Drops support of JIT.
+ Drops support of C-api.
+ Drops support of Rust bindings.
Co-authored-by: Nikita Frolov <nf@mkmks.org>
the new wrapper function will make a call to the main compiled function,
and we got some problem in the GOT/PLT due to function of the same name.
So now we prefiex with `concrete_` to avoid that.
this was already implemented for JIT using mlir::ExecutionEngine, but
was using a different, and more complex way for library compilation and
execution, which was causing a bad calling convention at the assembly
level in MacOS M1 machine. This commits unify the invocation of JIT and
Library compiled circuit, solving the previously mentioned issue, but
also gives the ability to extend compiled libraries to support more than one
returned value
