trident/baselines/triton/vm/crypto/merkle.tasm

// Hand-optimized TASM baseline: vm.crypto.merkle
//
// Merkle step intrinsic — single Triton VM instruction.

// step(idx, d0, d1, d2, d3, d4) -> (new_idx, Digest)
// Stack: [idx d0 d1 d2 d3 d4] with d4 on top
// merkle_step divines sibling, computes parent
vm_crypto_merkle__step:
    merkle_step
    return