GUILLOTINE: THE ULTRAFAST EVM IMPLEMENTATION

Summary from the TLDR Crypto newsletter

Guillotine is an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) implementation written in Zig that claims to compete for the fastest EVM ever built while achieving significant size optimizations down to 110kb wasm size, representing a 4x improvement over existing options. The interpreter features data-oriented design with microoptimizations including bytecode preanalysis, instruction fusion, and tailcall recursion to maximize CPU branch prediction and minimize memory footprint, enabling universal compatibility across programming languages from Python to Swift to Rust. Guillotine represents Tevm's mission to enable Ethereum to run everywhere without compromises, utilizing techniques studied from various EVMs, including Ethereum.js, Evmone, Geth, and Revm, for differential testing. The project is currently in early alpha and released under the MIT license.