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Ok question for the ETH tech community: why don’t we have lots more precompiles?

For example, I can’t do Ed25519 in a smart contract due to precision/scale issues, but could make it a precompile that nodes could run.

As long as the gas fee is high enough to deter frequent use, is there a drawback?

No idea, but I like seeing you post here.

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Because the core devs refuse to add them, full stop.

There's been literal years of arguments about it because of what is effectively a difficulty with decision making on how to handle EVM versioning.

Builder of things. Dir of Product Research @ Polygon; x: Flow, Augur;

Yes, I can actually write code.

Interesting, would you mind expanding on the particular context?

I’m surprised red tape and semantics are key blockers here!

Well, some of it is old wounds as well. When it comes to cryptographic functions there's been additions in the past that don't really get used (ahem Blake) but that all clients continuously support. Cost functions are another issue as implementations improve over time.