According to Blockworks, Anza engineer Tao Zhu proposed a core modification to the Solana protocol to improve block packaging efficiency. The proposal was put forward in the Solana improvement document SIMD-0172, which aims to solve the problem of block space waste caused by the computational budget program.
Currently, Solanaâs computational budgeting program defaults to 200,000 computational units (CUs) per transaction, but Zhu believes that this value is often overestimated, resulting in wasted block space. Zhu proposes to reduce the default budget to zero within 10 epochs, requiring transaction creators to request a more precise computational budget.
This change will enable each Solana block to include more transactions, thereby increasing fee income for validators. However, some developers believe that the proposal is not radical enough and suggest moving the computation budget to the transaction header to reduce data usage.
Although Zhu said the calculated budget process could be eliminated entirely in the future, the current proposal has raised concerns among some developers that a temporary fix would increase the burden on them.
