Benchmarks

Due to their nature, homomorphic operations are naturally slower than their clear equivalent. Some timings are exposed for basic operations. For completeness, benchmarks for other libraries are also given.

All benchmarks were launched on an AWS m6i.metal with the following specifications: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8375C CPU @ 2.90GHz and 512GB of RAM.

Boolean

This measures the execution time of a single binary Boolean gate.

tfhe-rs::boolean.

tfhe-lib.

OpenFHE.

Shortint

This measures the execution time for some operations and some parameter sets of tfhe-rs::shortint.

This uses the Concrete FFT + avx512 configuration.

Next, the timings for the operation flavor default are given. This flavor ensures predictable timings of an operation all along the circuit by clearing the carry space after each operation.

Integer

This measures the execution time for some operation sets of tfhe-rs::integer.

All timings are related to parallelized Radix-based integer operations, where each block is encrypted using PARAM_MESSAGE_2_CARRY_2. To ensure predictable timings, the operation flavor is the default one: a carry propagation is computed after each operation. Operation cost could be reduced by using unchecked, checked, or smart.