Bump BLST - backend perf improvements #95
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This bumps BLST to the latest master.
Since BLSv4 commit which is the current one nimbus ETH2 builds with we have the following improvements:
(3878b9b...master)
This is how we use Milagro already and we paid unnecessary group checks with BLST until now.
With fast subgroup checks the cost of those checks isn't that high,1/4 to 1/2 of a scalar multiplication Benchmarks nim-blst#1, Subgroup check mratsim/constantine#47, which is significantly less costly than pairing but when a block is filled with 128 attestations it's still significant. Probable perf improvement 8~18% (maybe more?). Add groupcheck flags, bindings interface breaking change supranational/blst#44
And the current bump also brings