* eth/tracers: add basic native loader

* eth/tracers: add GetResult to tracer interface

* eth/tracers: add native call tracer

* eth/tracers: fix call tracer json result

* eth/tracers: minor fix

* eth/tracers: fix

* eth/tracers: fix benchTracer

* eth/tracers: test native call tracer

* eth/tracers: fix

* eth/tracers: rm extra make
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* eth/tracers: rm extra make

* eth/tracers: make callFrame private

* eth/tracers: clean-up and comments

* eth/tracers: add license

* eth/tracers: rework the model a bit

* eth/tracers: move tracecall tests to subpackage

* cmd/geth: load native tracers

* eth/tracers: minor fix

* eth/tracers: impl stop

* eth/tracers: add native noop tracer

* renamings
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* eth/tracers: more renamings

* eth/tracers: make jstracer non-exported, avoid cast

* eth/tracers, core/vm: rename vm.Tracer to vm.EVMLogger for clarity

* eth/tracers: minor comment fix

* eth/tracers/testing: lint nitpicks

* core,eth: cancel evm on nativecalltracer stop

* Revert "core,eth: cancel evm on nativecalltracer stop"

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* eth/tracers: linter nits

* eth/tracers: fix output on err
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* core: cmd: invert disableMemory

* core: fix missed inversion

* cmd/evm: preserve Flags but change default value

* Apply suggestions from code review
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* all: rm external interpreter and ewasm config

* core/vm: rm Interpreter interface

* cmd/geth: deprecate interpreter config fields

* cmd/geth, eth, core: snapshot dump + unify with trie dump

* cmd/evm: dump API fixes

* cmd/geth, core, eth: fix some remaining errors

* cmd/evm: dump - add limit, support address startkey, address review concerns

* cmd, core/state, eth: minor polishes, fix snap dump crash, unify format
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* core/vm/runtime/tests: add more benchmarks

* core/vm: initial work on improving alloc count for calls to precompiles

name                                  old time/op    new time/op    delta
SimpleLoop/identity-precompile-10M-6     117ms ±75%      43ms ± 1%  -63.09%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)
SimpleLoop/loop-10M-6                   79.6ms ± 4%    70.5ms ± 1%  -11.42%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)

name                                  old alloc/op   new alloc/op   delta
SimpleLoop/identity-precompile-10M-6    24.4MB ± 0%     4.9MB ± 0%  -79.94%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)
SimpleLoop/loop-10M-6                   13.2kB ± 0%    13.2kB ± 0%     ~     (p=0.357 n=5+5)

name                                  old allocs/op  new allocs/op  delta
SimpleLoop/identity-precompile-10M-6      382k ± 0%      153k ± 0%  -59.99%  (p=0.000 n=5+4)
SimpleLoop/loop-10M-6                     40.0 ± 0%      40.0 ± 0%     ~     (all equal)

* core/vm: don't allocate big.int for touch

name                                  old time/op    new time/op    delta
SimpleLoop/identity-precompile-10M-6    43.3ms ± 1%    42.4ms ± 7%     ~     (p=0.151 n=5+5)
SimpleLoop/loop-10M-6                   70.5ms ± 1%    76.7ms ± 1%   +8.67%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)

name                                  old alloc/op   new alloc/op   delta
SimpleLoop/identity-precompile-10M-6    4.90MB ± 0%    2.46MB ± 0%  -49.83%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)
SimpleLoop/loop-10M-6                   13.2kB ± 0%    13.2kB ± 1%     ~     (p=0.571 n=5+5)

name                                  old allocs/op  new allocs/op  delta
SimpleLoop/identity-precompile-10M-6      153k ± 0%       76k ± 0%  -49.98%  (p=0.029 n=4+4)
SimpleLoop/loop-10M-6                     40.0 ± 0%      40.0 ± 0%     ~     (all equal)

* core/vm: reduce allocs in staticcall

name                                  old time/op    new time/op    delta
SimpleLoop/identity-precompile-10M-6    42.4ms ± 7%    37.5ms ± 6%  -11.68%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)
SimpleLoop/loop-10M-6                   76.7ms ± 1%    69.1ms ± 1%   -9.82%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)

name                                  old alloc/op   new alloc/op   delta
SimpleLoop/identity-precompile-10M-6    2.46MB ± 0%    0.02MB ± 0%  -99.35%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)
SimpleLoop/loop-10M-6                   13.2kB ± 1%    13.2kB ± 0%     ~     (p=0.143 n=5+5)

name                                  old allocs/op  new allocs/op  delta
SimpleLoop/identity-precompile-10M-6     76.4k ± 0%      0.1k ± 0%     ~     (p=0.079 n=4+5)
SimpleLoop/loop-10M-6                     40.0 ± 0%      40.0 ± 0%     ~     (all equal)

* trie: better use of hasher keccakState

* core/state/statedb: reduce allocations in getDeletedStateObject

* core/vm: reduce allocations in all call derivates

* core/vm: reduce allocations in call variants

- Make returnstack `uint32`
- Use a `sync.Pool` of `stack`s

* core/vm: fix tests

* core/vm: goimports

* core/vm: tracer fix + staticcall gas fix

* core/vm: add back snapshot to staticcall

* core/vm: review concerns + make returnstack pooled + enable returndata in traces

* core/vm: fix some test tracer method signatures

* core/vm: run gencodec, minor comment polish
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- Dump stats also for --bench flag.
- From memory stats only show number and size of allocations. This is what `test -bench` shows. I doubt others like number of GC runs are any useful, but can be added if requested.
- Now the mem stats are for single execution in case of --bench.

The --bench flag uses the testing.B to execute the EVM bytecode many times and get the average exeuction time out of it.

Make it possible to load input from a file. Simlar to `--code` / `--codefile`, have `--input`/`--inputfile`.

This way, the output of `evm compile` can be used directly in `evm
--codefile code.txt run`, without stripping the trailing newline first.

* cmd/evm: evm input minor fixes, handle prefix, validate length, fixes #18041

* cmd/evm: remove whitespace

* core/state, cmd/geth: streaming json output dump cmd + optional code+storage

* dump: add option to continue even if preimages are missing

* core, evm: lint nits

* cmd: use local flags for dump, omit empty code/storage

* core/state: fix state dump test

Add a call `statedb.Commit(true)` if the `Dump` flag is on, as otherwise the `storage` output in the dump is always empty.

* Bugfix #17216: evm loads prestate file properly now

* code gofmted

This reverts commit fb9f7261.

* cmd/evm: change error msg output to stderr

* cmd/evm: fix some linter error

* all: get rid of error when create mdb

* core: clean up variables definition

* all: inline mdb definition

* common: delete StringToAddress, StringToHash

These functions are confusing because they don't parse hex, but use the
bytes of the string. This change removes them, replacing all uses of
StringToAddress(s) by BytesToAddress([]byte(s)).

* eth/filters: remove incorrect use of common.BytesToAddress

This commit reduces database I/O by not writing every state trie to disk.

* cmd/evm, core/vm, internal/ethapi: Add 'err' to tracer interface CaptureEnd

* cmd/evm: fix nullpointer when there is no error

With this commit, core/state's access to the underlying key/value database is
mediated through an interface. Database errors are tracked in StateDB and
returned by CommitTo or the new Error method.

Motivation for this change: We can remove the light client's duplicated copy of
core/state. The light client now supports node iteration, so tracing and storage
enumeration can work with the light client (not implemented in this commit).

Added the ability to directly compile and run ethereum assembly using
the evm utility: `evm run <file>`. This is equivalant to `evm compile
<file> | evm run`.

* Improved the standard evm tracer output and renamed it to WriteTrace
which now takes an io.Writer to write the logs to.
* Added WriteLogs which writes logs to the given writer in a readable
format.
* evm utility now also prints logs generated during the execution.

The evm compile command implements a simple assembly language that compiles to
EVM bytecode.

Also tweak behaviour so colors are only enabled when stderr is a terminal.

* common: remove CurrencyToString

Move denomination values to params instead.

* common: delete dead code

* common: move big integer operations to common/math

This commit consolidates all big integer operations into common/math and
adds tests and documentation.

There should be no change in semantics for BigPow, BigMin, BigMax, S256,
U256, Exp and their behaviour is now locked in by tests.

The BigD, BytesToBig and Bytes2Big functions don't provide additional
value, all uses are replaced by new(big.Int).SetBytes().

BigToBytes is now called PaddedBigBytes, its minimum output size
parameter is now specified as the number of bytes instead of bits. The
single use of this function is in the EVM's MSTORE instruction.

Big and String2Big are replaced by ParseBig, which is slightly stricter.
It previously accepted leading zeros for hexadecimal inputs but treated
decimal inputs as octal if a leading zero digit was present.

ParseUint64 is used in places where String2Big was used to decode a
uint64.

The new functions MustParseBig and MustParseUint64 are now used in many
places where parsing errors were previously ignored.

* common: delete unused big integer variables

* accounts/abi: replace uses of BytesToBig with use of encoding/binary

* common: remove BytesToBig

* common: remove Bytes2Big

* common: remove BigTrue

* cmd/utils: add BigFlag and use it for error-checked integer flags

While here, remove environment variable processing for DirectoryFlag
because we don't use it.

* core: add missing error checks in genesis block parser

* common: remove String2Big

* cmd/evm: use utils.BigFlag

* common/math: check for 256 bit overflow in ParseBig

This is supposed to prevent silent overflow/truncation of values in the
genesis block JSON. Without this check, a genesis block that set a
balance larger than 256 bits would lead to weird behaviour in the VM.

* cmd/utils: fixup import

Removed exported statedb object accessors, reducing the chance for nasty
bugs to creep in. It's also ugly and unnecessary to have these methods.