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I read somewhere that there is a limit on the amount of data that can be stored in a contract. And so there is a limit on how big arrays can be.
Now I am wondering is there a limit on how many mappings a contract can have? And is there a limit on how many events a contract can emit?
I am asking this to understand how a factory contract would store pointers if it had many child contracts.
The (theoretical) total storage for a contract is 2^256 * 32 bytes regardless of how you store it. That number is huge, you'll run into issues long before filling that storage.
I don't think there's a max number of Events that you can emit. However you'll probably limited by gas cost and block gas limit.
Now I am wondering is there a limit on how many mappings a contract can have? And is there a limit on how many events a contract can emit?
The practical limit for this is the transaction cost. You can in theory pump data to Ethereum blockchain at the rate of around few megabyte a minute, but you would pay billions of dollars per month for the transaction cost.
I am asking this to understand how a factory contract would store pointers if it had many child contracts.
Someone pays the transaction cost and the storage of a pointer is roughly the cost of executing SSTORE EVM instructions.
Now I am wondering is there a limit on how many mappings a contract can have?
If you mean variables of type mapping, and not entries in a particular mapping, then you'll eventually be limited by the maximum contract (code) size, which is 24kB. (Though I think if you had that many mappings then you'd need to reconsider your contract design... )
