Vitalik responded to how to ensure hardware independence in improving the performance evaluation methods of cryptographic technologies, which can use publicly available hardware

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin previously suggested that developers in the fields of zero-knowledge proofs (ZK) and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) adopt more practical performance evaluation metrics and proposed using the "efficiency ratio," which is the ratio of encrypted computation time to original computation time, instead of the traditional "operations per second" metric. However, some community users have raised concerns about how to ensure hardware independence.

In response, Vitalik Buterin stated that publicly available hardware could be used, and the geometric mean of the capital expenditure in dollars per second of operations and the joules per operation in both encrypted and original computations would become a reasonable initial pass metric.