Ethereum Virtual Machine

June 2, 2021

• Virtual Machine - runtime environment “computer running on computer”
  • e.g. JVM
• allows interoperability (cross-platform)
• has it’s own bytecode (rather than assembly). An intermediary language
• specifically for smart contracts
• has its own instrucation set
• big endian ordering (most sig byte at smallest memory)
• ROM not RAM, not Von Neumann
• stack based architecture (as opposed to register)
• has memory(volatile) and storage(non-volatile)