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0 pointsjoshspankit5y ago0 comments

Sorry, I know my question depends on a lot of variables.

I’m just looking for a “sanity check” example, but I only have a vague notion of pointer being a reference to a spot in memory, as well as knowing that doing transactions on the ETH network incurs fees.

Are there any “power user” examples? Like, how much would it cost to run `ls` on a folder of 200 files, or encoding a video with `ffmpeg` (or insert proper example here since I don’t know where `unique_ptr` is used lol)

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iudqnolq5y ago

A lot :)

If you've ever programmed, imagine kinda-sorta one move per argument per time you call a function. Like `console.log(foo, bar)` would be two moves. (This isn't literally true, it over counts a bit). Ffmpeg would be in the tens of thousands of moves for encoding a short video, maybe? They don't use unique_ptr, so it's hard to do a counterfactual.

An imperfect analogy is this is like nails/screws when building a house.

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