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Does anyone have experience with testing very high-volume minting for an ERC-721 contract?

For example, 10M+ mints? 

I have a basic test in my local environment, but it's throwing an EVM Revert error before I reach the theoretical max. 

Wondering if there's a better way to simulate this many mints.

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you're limited by gas per block, check the gas usage on 1 mint and you can calculate the max.

i already have checks in place for the block gas limit

what i want to understand is how the gas usage for write txns change over time as the internal data structures grow in size

eg if a function needs to perform a lookup from an array, everything might seem fine for the first 1M mints, but blow up at higher numbers

i misspoke. with the exception of one read function, there aren't any functions that are iterating over an array. 

i know that the contract will need to eventually store ~50mb of data, and possibly more

i am trying to understand what is causing my forge test to fail at the ~500k mint mark with a MemoryLimitOOG error

You would almost never want to iterate through an array, even a small amount of data in a smart contract, especially with millions.

What are you trying to achieve?

A binary search might be useful here depending on what you're doing.

you have an odd process there, assuming the use of mapping instead of an actual array is not possible.