Making the EVM Scream - Dr. Greg Colvin
Mon, Oct 2, 2017, 12:00 AM
Visit the https://archive.devcon.org/ to gain access to the entire library of Devcon talks with the ease of filtering, playlists, personalized suggestions, decentralized access on IPFS and more. https://archive.devcon.org/archive/watch/2/making-the-evm-scream How I got the EVM interpreter from where it was to where it will be in the future. Speaker(s): Greg Colvin Skill level: Advanced Track: Developer Infrastructure Keywords: operations, tests, structure, gas, memory, computation, threading, opcode, interpreter, constant, gmp, boost, arithmetic Follow us: https://twitter.com/efdevcon, https://twitter.com/ethereum Learn more about devcon: https://www.devcon.org/ Learn more about ethereum: https://ethereum.org/ Devcon is the Ethereum conference for developers, researchers, thinkers, and makers. Devcon 2 was held in Shanghai, China on Sep 19 - 21, 2016. Devcon is organized and presented by the Ethereum Foundation, with the support of our sponsors. To find out more, please visit https://ethereum.foundation/
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Greg's career spans decades, from a psychology PhD at Cornell through artificial intelligence, optical storage, and information retrieval startups in Boulder and San Francisco, optimization of the JVM interpreter in the Oracle kernel, long service on the C++ standards committee, and EVM R&D and Ethereum community development. He likes fast cars, loud guitars, and challenging projects that advance the state of the art.