I want to know the operating costs of a canister that I am developing. Initially, I tried to estimate the costs using this table but besides the obvious ones like canister creation and storage, it turned out to be very difficult since I do not know the number of Wasm instructions of each function. I…

Got it, thanks for letting me know.

[image] gabe: Interesting! Is that a link to internal docs? I don’t seem to be able to access it but would love to read up on it. Ah sorry, here is the link to the spec on smartcontracts.org

Thank you, I am very excited for this. If I interpret the specification right, ic0.performance_counter counts all in-canister Wasm instructions from the entry point invocation, including chained functions. Does it also count instructions executed in other canisters from inter-canister calls?

Very useful distinction to understand how actor messaging on the IC works.

@chenyan @berestovskyy Would you happen to know? I’m curious about this as well.

[image] gabe: If I interpret the specification right, ic0.performance_counter counts all in-canister Wasm instructions from the entry point invocation, including chained functions. Does it also count instructions executed in other canisters from inter-canister calls? hey @gabe , The perf coun…

This wiki is a really great resource, thanks.

This is great! Thank you for sharing. For others reading this thread, I can recommend this thread as well.

it’s very cool @gabe , very detailed page :+1: Looking forward to see a blog post! And sure, if you have more questions, we are here to help!

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jzxchiang May 24, 2022, 12:58am 25

Actually, this might be the answer: Calculate an estimate of cycles consumption: a universal example - #6 by domwoe

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