Embedding Go Pprof

26 Feb 2018

As you know Golang has time-based profiling subsytem and visualization tool called pprof. The pprof is not friendly for use in a manner different than command line tool. However there is a way to embed it in an application to generate some reports in tests/benchmarks cases. I use it in my benchmark module to generate benchmarking report contaning top calls and callgrapth of the significant functions.

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How fast is Sputnik VM

18 Feb 2018

In december 2017, ETCDEV Team has added Sputnik VM to go-etherm client for ETC blockchain. I tried to compare performance of SputnikVM (Rust) against original Classic VM (Go).

I benchmarked both of them over the subset of state tests from ethereumproject source tree and published following Benchmark Visualizaion

What does it mean?

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