• Péter Szilágyi's avatar
    accounts/abi/bind, internal/ethapi: binary search gas estimation (#3587) · 682875ad
    Péter Szilágyi authored
    Gas estimation currently mostly works, but can underestimate for more funky
    refunds. This is because various ops (e.g. CALL) need more gas to run than they
    actually consume (e.g. 2300 stipend that is refunded if not used). With more
    intricate contract interplays, it becomes almost impossible to return a proper
    value to the user.
    
    This commit swaps out the simplistic gas estimation to a binary search approach,
    honing in on the correct gas use. This does mean that gas estimation needs to
    rerun the transaction log(max-price) times to measure whether it fails or not,
    but it's a price paid by the transaction issuer, and it should be worth it to
    support proper estimates.
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