Timeline for Why are the static account and instruction lists prefixed with a compact-u16 length instead of a simple u8?
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| Jun 8, 2023 at 20:24 | comment | added | steveluscher | Your argument about future-proofing is a good one, but I have to think: if we were going to increase the transaction size to the point where more than 256 addresses would fit, we could at that point call that a new transaction version. The old version could have used u8, and the new version compact-u16. | |
| Jun 8, 2023 at 20:21 | comment | added | steveluscher | Thanks for the detailed response! I answered the question similarly here: solana.stackexchange.com/a/2129/75 | |
| Jun 7, 2023 at 18:04 | history | answered | Whiteseal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |