Implementations of the present specification provide a method for deploying a smart contract. According to the method in the implementations, in a phase of deploying a smart contract, a bytecode included in a contract module corresponding to the contract is obtained; and then the bytecode is parsed into executable instruction codes, and the executable instruction codes are stored in a cache memory. Further, a function index table is determined for import and export functions in the bytecode, where the function index table is used to indicate a memory address of an instruction code corresponding to each of the import and export functions; and the function index table is stored in the cache memory.