A place for talking about the Ethereum Virtual Machine on Farcaster.

Optimizing my first serious L2 contracts has been a journey:

1) Dev: your intuitions are all wrong now.
2) Testnet: cheap L2 gas, cheap L1 calldata. Many tools overestimate L2 gas and it can outweigh calldata unlike IRL.
3) Mainnet: cheap L2 gas, L1 calldata is 20-100x testnet cost. Calldata costs dominate everything.

I'm eth newbie..just learning
(working on @farcaster)

terminally.online

Thoughts on optimizing for L1 calldata now and then after 4844, L1 calldata costs plummet? Rewrite?

Engineering @ 0x | Interested in walkable cities

Beautiful

And great to see you here on FC @frangio!

Internal calls are not affected by L1 DA costs so it doesn't necessarily make sense to design the whole interface for optimal calldata use. Add a calldata-optimized interface as a secondary set of functions that invoke unoptimized functions. By decoupling this way you don't have to rewrite everything when costs change.