This repository is under development and experimental.
qEVM: Quick/Quaint/Quality Ethereum Virtual Machine
In short, qEVM = EVM - janky stuff (stuff for ancient forks, terrible code, etc.) + cool features (transaction-level parallelism, better composability).
qEVM is a clean rework of EVM from scratch in Rust, with a clear mind of supporting its current instruction set to be able to run most of the smart contracts compiled by solidity. It is what I would have done if I were implementing the first EVM for the Ethereum client. It should be reusable at different levels of abstraction and allow easy customization (storage, checkpoints, caching policies, etc.) to adapt to a blockchain platform.
We hope to eventually replace the old EVM in the future if this initiative turns out to work well.
One can always run faster without historical burden.