EIP-2677: Limit size of initcode

[axic]

A new proposal has been pushed which introduces both a hard cap and a charge:

EIP-3860: Limit and meter initcode

This is the discussion topic for

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@MrChico

If the cost of the jumpdest analysis scales linearly with the codesize, wouldn’t it make more sense to charge per initcode byte, instead of just imposing a hard cap?

@chriseth

Can you please provide an explanation in the EIP document that tells why the same effects cannot be achieved by charging a cost per byte, as @McChico proposes?

The answer to this can be found in the rationale of the new proposal. In short, having a hard cap helps in crafting worst case scenarios to measure the cost against.