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A question about the 500 lines of code and tooling limitations. Is this something that is inherently an issue of the underlying technology or do you predict th
by lprubin 9y ago
A question about the 500 lines of code and tooling limitations. Is this something that is inherently an issue of the underlying technology or do you predict that this is something that is likely to be improved upon over time? And if you think it'll be improved, are we years away from big improvements? Less?
- jatsign 9y agoThe 500 lines of code is, to be clear, just a guesstimate. It really is related to how those lines of code are compiled into Ethereum opcodes. Maybe you can get a thousand lines of code. My point is that it's pretty small, compared to what most developers are used to. The max gas limit is voted on by Ethereum miners. They recently raised it to 6.7 million (I believe it was 4.5 million not so long ago). The gas is what is used to store the contract (thus increasing the block chain size), or to execute code (thus increasing the work load on the miners), so it's up to them. More Eth = more $$, but they have to weigh that against the downsides. If the price of Eth keeps going up, they have less incentive to increase the gas limit, because they get more money for doing the same work.
- DennisP 9y agoAside from the gas limit there's a hard 24KB limit on bytecode size, to deal with a denial-of-service vulnerability that cropped up last year. Possibly that will be improved in some future upgrade.