GLUE AND COPROCESSOR ARCHITECTURES

Summary from the TLDR Crypto newsletter

Modern resource-heavy computation is split into two parts: complex but light “business logic” and intensive but structured “expensive work.” This pattern, called the glue and coprocessor architecture, is increasingly prevalent in Ethereum, AI, and programmable cryptography. Glue prioritizes generalizability and flexibility, while coprocessors focus on efficiency for specific tasks. By optimizing for different parts of computation separately, performance, security, and developer-friendliness are improved.