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Gas Optimizations #140

Open code423n4 opened 2 years ago

code423n4 commented 2 years ago

Save gas in for loops by unchecked arithmetic

The for loop has no overflow risk of i. Use an unchecked block to save gas.

Proof of Concept

https://github.com/code-423n4/2022-03-lifinance/blob/main/src/Facets/Swapper.sol#L14 https://github.com/code-423n4/2022-03-lifinance/blob/main/src/Libraries/LibDiamond.sol#L67 https://github.com/code-423n4/2022-03-lifinance/blob/main/src/Libraries/LibDiamond.sol#L92 https://github.com/code-423n4/2022-03-lifinance/blob/main/src/Libraries/LibDiamond.sol#L110 https://github.com/code-423n4/2022-03-lifinance/blob/main/src/Libraries/LibDiamond.sol#L125 https://github.com/code-423n4/2022-03-lifinance/blob/main/src/Facets/DexManagerFacet.sol#L33 https://github.com/code-423n4/2022-03-lifinance/blob/main/src/Facets/DexManagerFacet.sol#L52 https://github.com/code-423n4/2022-03-lifinance/blob/main/src/Facets/DexManagerFacet.sol#L65 https://github.com/code-423n4/2022-03-lifinance/blob/main/src/Facets/DexManagerFacet.sol#L70 https://github.com/code-423n4/2022-03-lifinance/blob/main/src/Facets/HopFacet.sol#L48 https://github.com/code-423n4/2022-03-lifinance/blob/main/src/Facets/DiamondLoupeFacet.sol#L24

Recommendation

Use unchecked blocks to avoid overflow checks, or use ++i rather than i++ if you don't use unchecked blocks.

for (uint256 i = 0; i < length; ) {
    ...
    unchecked {
        ++i;
    }
}
H3xept commented 2 years ago

We internally decided to avoid unchecked statements for now.