The instructions in this repo for running SP1 are missing rust compilation flags that give free performance gains on most CPUs. The AMD EPYC 7713 used in your most recent benchmarking report supports AVX acceleration and hence should be enabled.

On my r6a.16xlarge instance, I get the following numbers:

• Simple Arithmetic (SP1): 2.47 Seconds
• Simple Arithmetic (R0): 5.3 Seconds
• Memory Alloc (SP1): 3.84 Seconds
• Memory Alloc (R0): 9.72 Seconds

These flags are recommended in our docs.