This PR introduces powerful code size optimizations. This is achieved
with an additional IR layer in between Yul and LLVM IR. It works quite
well (see below for a comparison) because it captures optimization gains
that neither solc nor LLVM can realize.
The feature is gated behind `--newyork` or a corresponding standard JSON
input setting and **off by default**.
### How it works
We implemented an SSA IR modelled after or inspired by the [MLIR SCF
dialect](https://mlir.llvm.org/docs/Dialects/SCFDialect/). Yul is
translated into this IR and the IR implements mainly the following
optimizations:
- **Type narrowing**: narrows 256-bit values to I1..I160 where provable
(bidirectional + interprocedural), so LLVM emits native 32/64-bit ops
instead
of software 256-bit arithmetic.
- **FMP range proof**: exposes the `mload(0x40) < heap_size` bound to
LLVM
IPSCCP, eliminating trailing overflow checks on FMP-derived offsets.
Single
largest code-size contributor.
- **Heap analysis**: skips big-endian byte-swaps where native
little-endian
layout is safe.
- **mem_opt / keccak fusion+folding**, **compound outlining** (mapping
sload/sstore), **guard narrowing**, **inlining** tuned for PolkaVM, and
**exact + fuzzy function dedup**.
### Results
The optimizations implemented with the newyork IR bring substantial code
size improvements.
- Integration contracts: approximately **-20% to -50%** code size.
- OpenZeppelin Wizard corpus: around **-47%** code size.
This table shows the code size improvements on various OpenZeppelin ERC
implementations, taken from their [contracts
wizard](https://wizard.openzeppelin.com/), with almost all features
enabled.
| Contract | Default: (bytes) | With `--newyork`: (bytes) | Reduction |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| erc1155 | 59,206 | 30,649 | -48.2% |
| erc20 | 81,697 | 42,893 | -47.5% |
| erc721 | 92,052 | 49,423 | -46.3% |
| oz_gov | 141,861 | 81,159 | -42.8% |
| oz_rwa | 77,274 | 37,975 | -50.9% |
| oz_simple_erc20 | 29,950 | 16,554 | -44.7% |
| oz_stable | 82,117 | 39,032 | -52.5% |
| **Total** | **564,157** | **297,685** | **-47.2%** |
We believe this to be a reasonably representative dataset and conclude
that the newyork IR achieves drastic code size reductions on real world
dApp implementations.
### Methodology, security and runtime performance
Since the main contributors to these improvements are the FMP range
proofs and the type narrowing, we don't expect big runtime performance
regressions (it may even benefit runtime performance in some cases).
The PR also includes docs
(`book/src/developer_guide/newyork_{optimizer,ir}.md`) and many new
integration tests, including regression tests for known FMP soundness
traps.
The PR was authored collaboratively and reviewed extensively by the
`revive` maintainers, as well as Claude Opus, Claude Fable, Qwen,
Minimax and Deepseek LLMs, over a span of many months.
The `newyork` compiler pipeline introduces no new regressions over our
integration and differential test suites (containing over 30000 test
cases). This was achieved by careful manual reviews and many LLM bughunt
loops. Additionally, a final security review by Anthropic's Fable 5 LLM
found no remaining soundness issues. Nonetheless, like any brand new
software, please consider this an experimental feature upon release.
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Signed-off-by: xermicus <bigcyrill@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: xermicus <cyrill@parity.io>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: neo <me@90f9.org>
Co-authored-by: LJ <81748770+elle-j@users.noreply.github.com>
Pre-eliminary support for LLVM releases and resolc binary releases by streamlining the build process for all supported hosts platforms.
- Introduce the revive-llvm-builder crate with the revive-llvm builder utilty.
- Do not rely on the LLVM dependency in $PATH to decouple the system LLVM installation from the LLVM host dependency.
- Fix the emscripten build by decoupling the host and native LLVM dependencies. Thus allowing a single LLVM emscripten release that can be used on any host platform.
- An example Dockerfile building an alpine container with a fully statically linked resolc ELF binary.
- Remove the Debian builder utilities and workflow.
