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EIP proposal, relevant to gas limit raising discussions:

Increase calldata cost, perhaps back to the original 68 per nonzero byte, now that we have EIP-4844 blobs for data-heavy use cases.

It would address the worst-case data issues and add breathing room to raise not just gas limit but also blob count target.

Agreed that if calldata and blobs compete for bandwidth, then increasing calldata cost allows for raising blob count. But if calldata isn't the bottleneck for raising the gas limit, does it really help for that?

https://ethresear.ch/t/on-block-sizes-gas-limits-and-scalability/18444 mentions worst-case calldata sizes quite a bit.

And more broadly, I think given that limitations tend to be decided based on the worst case, bringing average case and worst case block sizes closer together seems obviously good.

Robust Incentives Group @ Ethereum Foundation

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