Zilkworm v0.1.0-alpha.2

v0.1.0-alpha.2 - More performance, more testing, and more stability

Highlights

Many tests, benchmakrs and performance related improvments introduced in this release.

Tests and Benchmarks:

• Now introduces SP1 Hypercube EEST run workflow, and a 200-block benchmark. This ensures the whole EEST suite can be run inside of the prover and any problems tracked down. It is a stronger check for proving blocks as running EESTs on native hardware uses a different code-path and build.
• EEST JSONs are now converted to the unifiedRLP input format used for running blocks inside the provers. This means EESTs now share the same code-path as actual blocks, resulting in stronger checks.

Improvments and Fixes

• Close to 10% improved proving time, notable improvements:
  • MPT optimizations for post state root calculation
  • Faster ECC with MSM (Gauss-Shamir)
• Fixes introduced for prover build

ZVM1/EVMone changes

ZVM1 (now corresponds to evmone v0.21.0)

• EVMC merge: All of EVMC is now in a sub-directory of ZVM1 repository (history retained) making code easier to maintian and ship
• Many Amsterdam and Instruction related changes in upstream, please check the changelog and upstream EVMOne for more context

Contributors

Author	Commits
Somnath Banerjee	11
Paweł Bylica	4
canepat	2

Commit Log by Category (17 non-merge commits since v0.1.0-alpha.1)

Core EVM & Execution

• d26a0b61 drop call-path bailout and refund options (#92) (Paweł Bylica @chfast)
• f3defa53 Merge EVMC submodule into evmone (upstream PR #1499) (#85) (Paweł Bylica @chfast)
• 9ac3838a Use --wrap for memcpy and memmove implementations (#72) (Paweł Bylica @chfast)

Merkle Patricia Trie

• 54d85257 core/trie_zz: Use first 8 bytes hash for FlatNodeStore and fast rlp (#76) (Somnath Banerjee @somnergy)

Tests, Benchmarks & EESTs

• 929c7d7d Convert EEST JSON fixtures to unified RLP (#88) (@canepat)
• 65d5bb37 prover, workflows: Concurrent EEST runner and CI workflow for SP1 Hypercube (#84) (Somnath Banerjee @somnergy)
• e8dd6edb Add SP1 200-block benchmark CI (#81) (Somnath Banerjee @somnergy)
• dee84782 Add SP1 benchmark script (#79) (Somnath Banerjee @somnergy)
• 258b4cbf Add HyperCube EEST CI workflow (Somnath Banerjee @somnergy)

CI/CD & Workflows

• 5f8079d0 workflows: add RISC-V and Rust to CI image, use it in SP1 benchmark (#87) (Somnath Banerjee @somnergy)
• 8184fc40 workflows: Use pre-built image at ghcr, necessary files only from eest-fixtures (#86) (Somnath Banerjee @somnergy)
• def81782 ci: set RUSTUP_HOME/CARGO_HOME in CI image (Somnath Banerjee @somnergy)

Build System & Toolchain

• 56856115 Don't use Cable buildinfo (#67) (Paweł Bylica @chfast)
• 246a6425 Unify CMakeLists for qemu_runner (#78) (Somnath Banerjee @somnergy)
• 16200fc5 Fix build (Somnath Banerjee @somnergy)

Documentation & Tooling

• 6d5aa9c8 Improve README formatting and and clarity (#74) (@canepat)
• 5dbe3db0 Add Copyright to files in bulk (Somnath Banerjee @somnergy)