This is a minimal set of changes to make things work with the new types
in nim-eth - this is the minimal PR that merely resolves
incompatibilities while the full change set would include more cleanup
and migration.
In the current VM opcode dispatcher, a two-level case statement is
generated that first matches the opcode and then uses another nested
case statement to select the actual implementation based on which fork
it is, causing the dispatcher to grow by `O(opcodes) * O(forks)`.
The fork does not change between instructions causing significant
inefficiency for this approach - not only because it repeats the fork
lookup but also because of code size bloat and missed optimizations.
A second source of inefficiency in dispatching is the tracer code which
in the vast majority of cases is disabled but nevertheless sees multiple
conditionals being evaluated for each instruction only to remain
disabled throughout exeuction.
This PR rewrites the opcode dispatcher macro to generate a separate
dispatcher for each fork and tracer setting and goes on to pick the
right one at the start of the computation.
This has many advantages:
* much smaller dispatcher
* easier to compile
* better inlining
* fewer pointlessly repeated instruction
* simplified macro (!)
* slow "low-compiler-memory" dispatcher code can be removed
Net block import improvement at about 4-6% depending on the contract -
synthetic EVM benchmnarks would show an even better result most likely.
* Bump nim-eth, nim-web3, nimbus-eth2
- Replace std.Option with results.Opt
- Fields name changes
* More fixes
* Fix Portal stream async raises and portal testnet Opt usage
* Bump eth + nimbus-eth2 + more fixes related to eth_types changes
* Fix in utp test app and nimbus-eth2 bump
* Fix test_blockchain_json rebase conflict
* Fix EVMC block_timestamp conversion plus commentary
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Co-authored-by: kdeme <kim.demey@gmail.com>
* Remove exception from evm memory
* Remove exception from gas meter
* Remove exception from stack
* Remove exception from precompiles
* Remove exception from gas_costs
* Remove exception from op handlers
* Remove exception from op dispatcher
* Remove exception from call_evm
* Remove exception from EVM
* Fix tools and tests
* Remove exception from EVMC
* fix evmc
* Fix evmc
* Remove remnants of async evm stuff
* Remove superflous error handling
* Proc to func
* Fix errors detected by CI
* Fix EVM op call stack usage
* REmove exception handling from getVmState
* Better error message instead of just doAssert
* Remove unused validation
* Remove superflous catchRaise
* Use results.expect instead of unsafeValue
Why?
Some opcodes such as labeled EIP-2929 changed their behavior from fixed
gas cost to dynamic gas cost.
This changes together with #1715 and #1717 will make the new EVM tracer
to produce trace result identical to geth.
* Silence some compiler gossip -- part 6, evm
details:
Adding some missing exception annotation
* Update evmc cases
why:
were previously missing
* Increase Windows stack needed to run EVMC unit tests
why:
After annotating functions to trace exceptions some unit tests started
to fail on Windows without clear error report.
EVMC works recursively and now there seems to be a stack problem
reported by the nim compiler. Increasing the NIM stack ass sugessted by
NIM (using -d:nimCallDepthLimit=###) had some effect but no clear
solution.
Note that this patch set unrolls some NIM compiler settings
Jacek Sieka
andri lim
tersec
Jordan Hrycaj
Adam Spitz