“ Why are Internet Computer’s storage costs so low? ” continued… State Manager saves past states. Does it save only recent states rather than all past states? IC state manager - Internet Computer Wiki “ How it works - Internet Computer Execution Layer ” has “The replicated state that can be held …

correct, only the last few checkpoints are stored I can’t answer that precisely, but it matches my understanding. 64bit WASM is discussed in this thread

Does State Manager throw away old state? Are states stored on SSD?

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tokuryoo March 24, 2023, 5:37am 3

@Severin
Thank you for your response! I will try to discuss in this thread.

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