Benchmark NEAR EVM vs native WASM contract vs Ethereum

[ilblackdragon]

There are two questions that come up:

• How much slower contract in Solidity in near-evm compared to the same contract in WASM
• What is the speed compared to Ethereum

We need to figure out what is an apple to apple comparison here and evaluate it.

For WASM vs NEAR EVM we can just have a simple contract written in both and evaluate it on the same node.
Are there any default benchmarks for Ethereum @prestwich we can reuse?

[prestwich]

The best approach here would be to choose a standard contract, and run a suite of transactions on both ganache and near-evm. I'll look at automating this in the near future.

[ilblackdragon]

Just leaving it here for tracking.
Gas usage in near-evm tests for different ops:

Activity	gas
Deploy evm	14_436_814_659_810
deploy_code(cryptozombies)	2_323_274_445_688
createRandomZombie	2_292_186_711_135
evm_balance_of_near_account	2_291_600_327_838

For context, block limit is 1_000_000_000_000_000

[ewilz]

started doing some benchmarking on this branch, but paused on the efforts when precompiles prevented us from being able to deploy the contract:

https://github.com/near/near-evm/tree/benchmark