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Summary

Rebuilds the benchmark suite around eth.zig's own past releases, and fixes the performance regressions Zig 0.17 introduced.

Performance. Zig 0.17 ships LLVM 22 with loop vectorization disabled, so byte-at-a-time loops that 0.16 quietly vectorized got slower. ABI offset/length words and zero-padding checks now read 8 bytes at a time, and RLP integers are written with one big-endian store.

Benchmark	v0.9.2 (Zig 0.16)	main (Zig 0.17)	this PR
abi_decode_dynamic	15.8 ns	~1.5x slower	17.0 ns (+7.5%)
dex_decode_universal_router	(new)	~507 ns	~154-217 ns
tx_hash_eip1559	143.0 ns	~+5-12%	143.5 ns (parity)

The other seven are within noise of v0.9.2; u256_uniswapv4_swap is ~9% faster. Full table and method in bench/README.md.

Hardening (ABI decode). Offset and length words that don't fit in a usize are now rejected instead of clamped to maxInt(usize). Before this, offset + 32 could overflow: it panics in Debug, and in -Doptimize=fast it wrapped past the bounds check. Dynamic-array lengths are bounded by the remaining data before allocating. Covered by four new hostile-input tests.

Benchmarks.

• Cut to the ten operations that dominate bot/searcher hot loops.
• Median of 31 batches in fractional ns; inputs read through an optimizer barrier (the old harness constant-folded several sub-10 ns benchmarks and only reported whole nanoseconds).
• secp256k1_recover now measures recovery only (it used to include signing).
• Performance-core QoS on macOS.
• --filter/--json/--save/--baseline/--fail-on-regression.
• zig build bench-install plus bench/ab.py for interleaved version comparisons.
• Removed the alloy.rs/Voltaire comparison benches and docs, including the comparison page and the "18/26" claims.

Test plan

• make ci on 0.17.0 (1122 tests, incl. new hostile-input ABI and RLP long-length tests)
• zig build bench, --baseline, --save, bench-install; bench/ab.py against v0.9.2 and main
• Docs site build (not run locally: pnpm install needs build-script approval; Vercel builds on merge)

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• New Features
  • Added configurable benchmarks with filtering, JSON output, saved baselines, and regression reporting.
  • Added interleaved benchmark comparisons and guidance for reviewing performance across runs.
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved ABI and DEX decoding of malformed or oversized offsets and lengths, including preventing unsafe large allocations.
• Documentation
  • Updated benchmark instructions, measurement guidance, and release-to-release performance results.

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The benchmark suite now includes ten configurable workloads, JSON results, baseline checks, and interleaved binary comparisons. Benchmark documentation and build commands use the new suite. ABI and DEX parsing add checked bounds and offset handling. RLP encoding changes how integer bytes and long-form lengths are emitted.

Changes

Benchmark suite

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Benchmark workloads and harness bench/bench.zig	The benchmark executable now runs ten workloads. It supports filtering, listing, configurable sampling, JSON output, saved results, and baseline regression checks.
Build and comparison workflow build.zig, Makefile, bench/ab.py, .github/workflows/bench.yml	Build commands forward benchmark options and provide an install step. bench/ab.py runs binaries in shuffled order and compares their results. The workflow saves the suite JSON output.
Benchmark documentation and retired comparisons README.md, bench/README.md, bench/*, docs/content/docs/*, docs/src/app/layout.tsx	Documentation describes the tracked workloads, measurement process, and release comparisons. Historical cross-library claims, reports, and benchmark implementations are removed.

ABI and DEX offset validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
ABI decode bounds and hostile-input tests src/abi_decode.zig	ABI decoding checks offsets and lengths for overflow, representability, and available input before reading or allocating. Tests cover oversized offsets and lengths.
DEX offset reads and parser callers src/dex/abi_reader.zig, src/dex/calldata.zig, src/dex/routers.zig, src/dex/v4.zig	DEX parsing uses checked offset reads for dynamic lengths and array counts. isZeroSlice also checks data in 8-byte chunks before handling remaining bytes.

RLP encoding

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Big-endian byte emission and tests src/rlp.zig	RLP integer payloads and long-form length prefixes use big-endian writes. Tests check prefixes and output lengths for three long strings.

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Review comments at @bench/ab.py:
- Line 60: Update the label generation in the benchmark comparison flow to
distinguish binaries with the same basename, such as `/tmp/old/bin/bench` and
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