delete smallfp trait and tests

Author: benbencik

ff/Cargo.toml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [package]
 name = "ark-ff"
 description = "A library for finite fields"
-keywords = ["cryptography", "finite-fields"]
+keywords = ["cryptography", "finite-fields" ]
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/ark-ff/"
 version.workspace = true
 authors.workspace = true
@@ -28,24 +28,18 @@ num-bigint.workspace = true
 digest = { workspace = true, features = ["alloc"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-ark-test-curves = { workspace = true, features = [
-    "bls12_381_curve",
-    "mnt6_753",
-    "secp256k1",
-] }
-ark-algebra-test-templates = { path = "../test-templates" }
-
+ark-test-curves = { workspace = true, features = ["bls12_381_curve", "mnt6_753", "secp256k1"] }
+blake2.workspace = true
 sha3.workspace = true
 sha2.workspace = true
 libtest-mimic.workspace = true
 serde.workspace = true
 serde_json.workspace = true
 serde_derive.workspace = true
 hex.workspace = true
-criterion.workspace = true
 
 [features]
 default = []
 std = [ "ark-std/std", "ark-serialize/std" ]
 parallel = [ "std", "rayon", "ark-std/parallel", "ark-serialize/parallel" ]
-asm = []
+asm = []

ff/README.md

@@ -38,33 +38,6 @@ The above two models serve as abstractions for constructing the extension fields
 - [`Fp6_3over2`](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/algebra/blob/master/ff/src/fields/models/fp6_3over2.rs#L64) - Extension tower, similar to the above except that the towering order is reversed: it's a cubic extension on a quadratic extension field, i.e. `BaseField = Fp2`, but `BasePrimeField = Fp`. Only this latter one is exported by default as `Fp6`.
 - [`Fp12_2over3over2`](https://github.com/arkworks-rs/algebra/blob/master/ff/src/fields/models/fp12_2over3over2.rs#L66) - Extension tower: quadratic extension of `Fp6_3over2`, i.e. `BaseField = Fp6`.
 
-## Instantiation
-
-You can instantiate fields in two ways:
-
-```rust
-use ark_ff::ark_ff_macros::SmallFpConfig;
-use ark_ff::fields::{Fp64, MontBackend, MontConfig};
-use ark_ff::{BigInt, SmallFp, SmallFpConfig, SqrtPrecomputation};
-
-// Standard (big integer) field
-#[derive(MontConfig)]
-#[modulus = "18446744069414584321"]
-#[generator = "7"]
-pub struct F64Config;
-pub type F64 = Fp64<MontBackend<F64Config, 1>>;
-
-// Small field (native integer backend):
-#[derive(SmallFpConfig)]
-#[modulus = "18446744069414584321"]
-#[generator = "7"]
-#[backend = "montgomery"] // or "standard"
-pub struct SmallF64ConfigMont;
-pub type SmallF64Mont = SmallFp<SmallF64ConfigMont>;
-```
-
-The standard field implementation can represent arbitrarily large fields, while the small field implementation supports native integer types from `u8` to `u128` for faster arithmetic. The small field implementation requires that the modulus fits into u128.
-
 ## Usage
 
 There are two important traits when working with finite fields: [`Field`],