Vitalik Buterin advocates for evaluating ZK and FHE performance using ratio-based metrics that account for capital expenditure and energy consumption, rather than traditional raw operation counts.
Vitalik Buterin has reiterated the importance of using ratio-based metrics to evaluate the performance of zero-knowledge (ZK) and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). He proposed a balanced benchmark combining capital expenditure per operation and energy consumption per operation. This approach would provide a hardware-neutral assessment, addressing concerns about specialized hardware and promoting better performance evaluation in varied environments.