VM: Performance Tracking Issue

holgerd77 commented 4 years ago

https://github.com/ethereumjs/organization/issues/64

Opening this up as a meta issue to bundle discussion on performance improvements on the library. Will take the idea list from the issue above over here to have a central place for this.

Analysis & Ideas

Performance Analysis from EthWorks
Some first ideas for potential improvement areas from @holgerd77 here
Investigate the performance penalty of the AsyncEventEmitter, suggested by @s1na

Related issues

Performance Optimization: Low Hanging Fruits #775, @alcuadrado
Performance regression in v4, #598

Work Tracking

Current Benchmarking Suite

[x] Benchmarking Tool for Mainnet Blocks, https://github.com/ethereumjs/ethereumjs-vm/pull/794, @s1na
[x] Use benchmark.js and visualize on CI, https://github.com/ethereumjs/ethereumjs-vm/pull/830, @ryanio

holgerd77 commented 2 years ago

Not a very extensive issue description, several aspects outdated and very generic, will close here.

holgerd77 commented 2 years ago

Update: have decided to reopen, some valuable links in here, especially this EthWorks analysis doc link should not get lost.

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