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62 bit montgomery multiply.
The implementation of montgomery multiplication is currently using our 31 bit representation. This is because of our desire to support WASM. We should detect if the machine has a 64 bit native multiply and if it does, use a 62 bit representation instead. I've hacked this up in a branch to only support 62 bit and the gains are around 40% on a 256 bit prime. These gains would be even larger on larger primes as the montgomery multiplication is n^2 in the length of the limbs array.
This gain is realized for multiplication as well as the exponentiation and is probably the lowest hanging fruit we have left.
See https://github.com/IronCoreLabs/gridiron/tree/62-bit-hack for my work on this.