VM: Performance Tracking Issue

[holgerd77]

ethereumjs/organization#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 Performance optimization low-hanging fruit #775, @alcuadrado
• Performance regression in v4, Performance regression in v4 #598

Work Tracking

Current Benchmarking Suite

• Benchmarking Tool for Mainnet Blocks, VM: add simple benchmarking tool for mainnet blocks #794, @s1na
• Use benchmark.js and visualize on CI, Use benchmark.js #830, @ryanio

[holgerd77]

Not a very extensive issue description, several aspects outdated and very generic, will close here.

[holgerd77]

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