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Optimize for worst-case performance tests (benchmarkoor)

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performance

Status: Open.

EPIC

#14522 In erigontech/erigon;

· yperbasis opened on Apr 9, 2025

Merge: impacting chain-tip

ErigonDB

performance

Status: Open.

EPIC

#20638 In erigontech/erigon;

· AskAlexSharov opened on Apr 18, 2026

BAL benchmarks & optimizations

Glamsterdamhttps://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7773https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7773

performance

Status: Open.

EPIC

#18679 In erigontech/erigon;

· yperbasis opened on Jan 15, 2026

BAL Related Performance Evaluation

Glamsterdamhttps://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7773https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7773

performance

Status: Open.

Task

#19589 In erigontech/erigon;

· mh0lt opened on Mar 3, 2026

torrent: ram usage

Downloader

ErigonDB

performance

Status: Open.

#21684 In erigontech/erigon;

· AskAlexSharov opened on Jun 9, 2026

High sustained MDBX COW writes at mainnet tip (110-140 MiB/block)

performance

Status: Open.

#23199 In erigontech/erigon;

· mbg033 opened on Aug 11, 2026

BlockStateCache vs StateCache

Status: Open.

#23140 In erigontech/erigon;

· sudeepdino008 opened on Aug 10, 2026

chaintip parallel exec: ~55% of the exec+commitment window is "other" (flush-to-mem + orchestration + stalls), not exec or commitment

performance

Status: Open.

#23073 In erigontech/erigon;

· sudeepdino008 opened on Aug 7, 2026

db/integrity: detect and repair stale CodeDomain entries left by EIP-7702 delegation clears

Pectra

Status: Open.

#22329 In erigontech/erigon;

· yperbasis opened on Jul 8, 2026

stagedsync: post-execution block validation (receipts root/bloom) is skipped for blocks resumed mid-block

Status: Open.

#22237 In erigontech/erigon;

· yperbasis opened on Jul 4, 2026

execution/execmodule: evictOldBuilders drops builders without stopping their goroutines

performance

Status: Open.

#22213 In erigontech/erigon;

· yperbasis opened on Jul 3, 2026

execution/cache: replace warmup drain-on-unwind with getter-level epoch capture

tech debt reduction

Status: Open.

#22116 In erigontech/erigon;

· mh0lt opened on Jun 30, 2026

Merge queue: hive/hive-eest jobs wait a median 13m (p95 1h44m, max 4h10m) for a runner

QA

Status: Open.

#21575 In erigontech/erigon;

· taratorio opened on Jun 2, 2026

BAL commitment fold-ahead never runs at the chain tip

Glamsterdamhttps://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7773https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7773

performance

Status: Open.

#23091 In erigontech/erigon;

· sudeepdino008 opened on Aug 7, 2026

execution/cache: avoid duplicate work when publishing StateCache batches

performance

Status: Open.

#23226 In erigontech/erigon;

· yperbasis opened on Aug 12, 2026

Investigate how much RPC↔exec state sharing to keep: STATE_CACHE_FILLS default, RPC cache reads, and the SharedDomains overlay

performance

RPC

Status: Open.

#23082 In erigontech/erigon;

· yperbasis opened on Aug 7, 2026

buildBlackListForPruning: chain-history-expiry drops the merge-spanning transactions segment

ErigonDB

Status: Open.

#22674 In erigontech/erigon;

· AskAlexSharov opened on Jul 22, 2026

Capling: long-living rotx in blob_downloader

CaplinCaplin: Consensus Layer, Beacon APICaplin: Consensus Layer, Beacon API

Status: Open.

#20663 In erigontech/erigon;

· AskAlexSharov opened on Apr 19, 2026

Rationalize normalizeWriteSet: collapse its 7 write-set passes (behavior-preserving)

tech debt reduction

Status: Open.

#22216 In erigontech/erigon;

· mh0lt opened on Jul 3, 2026

Code and account domain writes should be atomic at the IBS/writer layer

ErigonDB

Status: Open.

#22103 In erigontech/erigon;

· mh0lt opened on Jun 29, 2026

Thread caller context through the state-read path (replace context.TODO() bridges) — for metrics, then tracing/logging

tech debt reduction

Status: Open.

#21756 In erigontech/erigon;

· mh0lt opened on Jun 11, 2026

Recheck Downloader logic

ErigonDB

Status: Open.

Task

#21324 In erigontech/erigon;

· AskAlexSharov opened on May 21, 2026

execution/stagedsync (senders): ECDSA sender-recovery underutilises cores (~5/12) — serial feed/drain/flush bottleneck

performance

tech debt reduction

Status: Open.

#21637 In erigontech/erigon;

· mh0lt opened on Jun 5, 2026

NewPayload spam for slots with invalid blocks

UX

Status: Open.

Bug

#17505 In erigontech/erigon;

· mh0lt opened on Oct 16, 2025

gevm benches - to get erigon closer

performance

type:feature

Status: Open.

EPIC

#22749 In erigontech/erigon;

· AskAlexSharov opened on Jul 26, 2026