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Aha so memory is used to backup the stack. Since adding more items to memory increases the gas price for the added items this would make call depth attacks impossible because all of these attacks (up until a very high gas block limit) would run in out-of-gas.

JBrouwer
– JBrouwer

2018-07-06 13:58:55 +00:00
Commented Jul 6, 2018 at 13:58
Memory of your node is used for the call stack. The bigger the EVM memory, the bigger the cost in your node memory. Remember how expanding the EVM memory costs gas? That's why.

Xavier Leprêtre B9lab
– Xavier Leprêtre B9lab

2018-07-06 16:54:15 +00:00
Commented Jul 6, 2018 at 16:54

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