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  "type": "failure-mode",
  "name": "Choosing on prover time and discovering the memory wall",
  "slug": "choosing-on-prover-time-and-discovering-the-memory-wall",
  "section": {
    "id": "proof-systems",
    "number": "01",
    "title": "Choosing a proof system",
    "url": "https://zkpick.com/proof-systems/"
  },
  "url": "https://zkpick.com/proof-systems/failure-modes/choosing-on-prover-time-and-discovering-the-memory-wall/",
  "markdown": "https://zkpick.com/md/proof-systems/failure-modes/choosing-on-prover-time-and-discovering-the-memory-wall.md",
  "detail": "Selection is driven by wall-clock benchmarks, and the system then cannot run in the target environment at all because peak resident memory exceeds what a browser, phone or affordable instance provides.",
  "mitigation": "Measure peak memory on the actual target device early, and check whether the system supports streaming, chunked or continuation-based proving before committing.",
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  "updated": "2026-09-12",
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  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "authors": [
    "MarketComp"
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