The Art of Huff
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Huff is a low-level EVM language that claims measurable gas wins by compiling hand-crafted bytecode: an early assembler for elliptic-curve ops beat the precompile, TypeScript and Rust rewrites spark a 2023 renaissance, and the language exposes Huff macros with implicit pushes, template args and jump labels so code copies in at compile time. A practical trick uses a jump table via memory to get constant-gas external dispatch; use cases are MEV squeezes, stateless DeFi periphery, and teaching EVM internals.
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