I tested the Dusk extension on a decade old PC and one from last year. On both PCs the extension consumes a non-negligible amount of CPU, about 8-12%. I have not measured the energy consumption yet.

However, I can already tell the most recent PC outpaces the old one in terms of Dusk accumulation. At this stage CPU performance seems to be a bottleneck for ZK proof verification.

I thought generating ZK proofs was a magnitude more CPU intensive than verifying them. What then explains the effect of CPU usage on verifier performance?