A smart contract (SC) is a programme stored in the Ethereum blockchain by a contract‐creation transaction. SC developers deploy an instance of the SC and attempt to execute it in exchange for a fee, paid in Ethereum coins (Ether). If the computation needed for their execution turns out to be larger than the effort proposed by the developer (i.e., the gasLimit), their client instantiation will not be completed successfully.

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源代码指标和智能合约资源消耗的实证分析

智能合约（SC）是通过合约创建交易存储在以太坊区块链中的程序。SC 开发人员部署了一个 SC 实例并尝试执行它以换取以以太币（Ether）支付的费用。如果执行所需的计算结果大于开发人员建议的工作量（即 gasLimit），则他们的客户端实例化将无法成功完成。