Weekly update 2022-06-15 #7056

akhi3030 · 2022-06-17T09:07:56Z

akhi3030
Jun 17, 2022
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Done:

@Ekleog: Wrote and landed a small cleanup / API fixing PR: chore: remove impossible-to-trigger panic #7013
@Ekleog: Submitted a PR for differential fuzzing: feat: differentially fuzz wasmer2 against wasmtime #7025
@matklad: refactor: drop unused contract preloading infrastructure #7042, refactor: drop standalone vm runner #7043 -- finally dropped some old unused code!
@matklad: refactor: privatise NightshadeRuntime::new #7034, chore: remove obsolete todo #6999, chore: upgrade prometheus #6998, refactor: handle state patching in a more principled way #6967 -- small cleanups
@nagisa: Delete a bunch of code wasmer#135 to delete a grand total of thirty five thousand dead lines of code;
@nagisa: Refactor the handling of locals in singlepass wasmer#128 for linear handling of locals in our compilation pipeline;
@nagisa: Wrote down a skeleton test framework for instrumentation spec. tests;
@nagisa: Submitted a draft section of the spec on export indirection as well as add-ons to the base wasm-core-1 runtime semantics spec.
@jakmeier: Debugged estimator issues. Fixed parts (nearcore#7002) and created issues for remainder (nearcore#7003, nearcore#7004).

Upcoming:

@Ekleog: Land feat: differentially fuzz wasmer2 against wasmtime #7025
@matklad: RFC: abstract away actix nature of view client #7038 -- finally starting to do something with actix
@matklad: test: cleanup contract runtime tests #7012 -- further test cleanup, waiting for review
@matklad: refactor: remove misplaced sandbox requests from network #7044 -- yet another small cleanup
@nagisa: Writing down findings on mmap performance to document improvements, tradeoffs, etc. This will take a form of a blog post spanning ~8 pages.
@jakmeier: Spending time understanding IO performance

nagisa · 2022-06-17T10:24:03Z

FWIW the blog post can be found here

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