Cardano has made another significant upgrade regarding the limits of memory units, and now its director of architecture spreads the word about it on Twitter\n<\/p>\n
Input Output Hong Kong Twitter account\u00a0has shared\u00a0a recent mid-month video update from YouTube, where the director of Cardano architecture, John Alan Woods, spoke\u00a0about the recent\u00a0Cardano\u00a0upgrade and what it is about.\n<\/p>\n
Cardano block size gets bigger<\/h2>\n
According to Woods,\u00a0Cardano has increased\u00a0the limits of its memory units per block for Plutus scripts (Cardano-specific software programs) on Cardano mainnet. Overall, he stated that this year is dedicated to scaling Layer 1 on Cardano mainnet.\n<\/p>\n
Recently, substantial improvements to\u00a0Cardano block size have been made. The blockchain started off with blocks of 64 Kb, then improved the size to 64 Kb and, finally,\u00a0the block size was recently increased to 80 kilobytes.\n<\/p>\n
The next series of changes was made to the amount of memory units. Plutus requires both computational resources (CPU units) and memory units.<\/p>\n
It started with 10 million units, then this amount was increased to 11.25 million, followed by 12.5 million units.\u00a0Finally, the number recently increased to 14 million memory units on Plutus. That was a 40% increase in\u00a0the memory resources for Plutus scripts, as per Woods.\n<\/p>\n
Increasing per-block memory unit\u00a0limit for Plutus scripts<\/h2>\n
The most recent improvement, however, has been an increase in limits for memory units in each new block. The previous improvements in\u00a0memory limits were made per transaction. Both CPU and memory units have limits per block.\n<\/p>\n
Talking about the results of the improvement in layman\u2019s language, John Woods stated that now Plutus developers can not only write scripts that do more but can also put more of those scripts into Cardano blocks that have been made bigger.<\/p>\n
The previous increase in the per-block memory unit\u00a0limit was made on Feb.\u00a014, when the limit was raised from\u00a050 million\u00a0to 56 million\u00a0per block. That allowed developers to run up to four Plutus scripts simultaneously on each block.\n<\/p>\n