Celo Core Contracts should not be impacted by EIp1884 gas changes

[nambrot]

Expected Behavior

Celo Core Contracts should continue to work as expected if EIP1884 changes are made.

See:

• https://forum.openzeppelin.com/t/openzeppelin-upgradeable-contracts-affected-by-istanbul-hardfork/1616
• Cancel istanbul gas changes celo-blockchain#939
• https://medium.com/authereum/istanbul-gas-reprice-breaks-contract-interactions-4236fdddb5e0

Current Behavior

Unclear

[aslawson]

@pranaymohan Do you have a sense of how high priority is this? Would it be more painful to do this later if we wait?

[pranaymohan]

I believe we did not include this in the current hard fork to give more time to investigate whether it would break any contracts. The timeline which this would be useful to get done is before the next hard fork, which will be ~6 months after the first one, i.e. November 2021.

[trianglesphere]

FYI: In the berlin HF they increased gas prices again, but added EIP-2930: Optional access lists to defray costs when the access list can be computed ahead of time.

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