From 272369feb38373af3ce5040df5909dd99284f744 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Collins <davec@conformal.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 11:05:23 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] secp256k1: Add scalar base mult variant benchmarks.

ScalarBaseMultNonConstFast   64886   18242 ns/op    0 B/op   0 allocs/op
ScalarBaseMultNonConstSlow   13261   91696 ns/op   64 B/op   2 allocs/op
---
 dcrec/secp256k1/bench_test.go | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/dcrec/secp256k1/bench_test.go b/dcrec/secp256k1/bench_test.go
index 2b2681856a..813d5070e4 100644
--- a/dcrec/secp256k1/bench_test.go
+++ b/dcrec/secp256k1/bench_test.go
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ func BenchmarkAddNonConstNotZOne(b *testing.B) {
 }
 
 // BenchmarkScalarBaseMultNonConst benchmarks multiplying a scalar by the base
-// point of the curve.
+// point of the curve using whichever variant is active.
 func BenchmarkScalarBaseMultNonConst(b *testing.B) {
 	k := hexToModNScalar("d74bf844b0862475103d96a611cf2d898447e288d34b360bc885cb8ce7c00575")
 
@@ -65,6 +65,32 @@ func BenchmarkScalarBaseMultNonConst(b *testing.B) {
 	}
 }
 
+// BenchmarkScalarBaseMultNonConstFast benchmarks multiplying a scalar by the
+// base point of the curve using the fast variant.
+func BenchmarkScalarBaseMultNonConstFast(b *testing.B) {
+	k := hexToModNScalar("d74bf844b0862475103d96a611cf2d898447e288d34b360bc885cb8ce7c00575")
+
+	b.ReportAllocs()
+	b.ResetTimer()
+	var result JacobianPoint
+	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+		scalarBaseMultNonConstFast(k, &result)
+	}
+}
+
+// BenchmarkScalarBaseMultNonConstSlow benchmarks multiplying a scalar by the
+// base point of the curve using the resource-constrained slow variant.
+func BenchmarkScalarBaseMultNonConstSlow(b *testing.B) {
+	k := hexToModNScalar("d74bf844b0862475103d96a611cf2d898447e288d34b360bc885cb8ce7c00575")
+
+	b.ReportAllocs()
+	b.ResetTimer()
+	var result JacobianPoint
+	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+		scalarBaseMultNonConstSlow(k, &result)
+	}
+}
+
 // BenchmarkSplitK benchmarks decomposing scalars into a balanced length-two
 // representation.
 func BenchmarkSplitK(b *testing.B) {