solidity

Far more money has been lost in the pursuit of gas optimisation than has been saved, and it's not even close

Optimise for clean, simple, readable code

Leave the gas golfing for contests and games

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*recognises that design decisions have trade-offs, and that gas optimisation presents a very bad trade-off* 😏 

Receipts:

- Wintermute saved 15K by using vanity addresses with leading zeros, but this cost them 9 figures (https://0xfoobar.substack.com/p/vanity-addresses)
- Paraswap exploit from a few months ago, lucky to have only lost 24K due to swift white-hat hackers (https://neptunemutual.com/blog/analysis-of-the-paraswap-exploit/)
- Velocore lost millions two weeks ago (https://www.theblock.co/post/298032/decentralized-exchange-velocore-addresses-7-million-hack-in-postmortem-offers-bounty-to-hacker)

Many many such cases, this isn't really up for debate in my mind

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