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Use of constant keccak variables results in extra hashing (and so gas). #3

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code423n4 opened this issue Oct 30, 2021 · 0 comments
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Impact

Increase gas costs on all onlyAdmin operations

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The SLINGSHOT_ADMIN_ROLE variable is marked as constant:
https://github.com/code-423n4/2021-10-slingshot/blob/f6e7a0a39e3267bbe3c7fe60d6074cbf54f5750f/contracts/Adminable.sol#L11

This results in the keccak operation being performed whenever the variable is used, increasing gas costs relative to just storing the output hash. Changing to immutable will only perform hashing on contract deployment which will save gas.

See: ethereum/solidity#9232 (comment)

Recommended Mitigation Steps

Change the variable to be immutable rather than constant

@code423n4 code423n4 added bug Something isn't working G (Gas Optimization) labels Oct 30, 2021
code423n4 added a commit that referenced this issue Oct 30, 2021
@tommyz7 tommyz7 added the sponsor confirmed Sponsor agrees this is a problem and intends to fix it (OK to use w/ "disagree with severity") label Nov 4, 2021
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