Analyzing different potential slot times and their effects on storage use of EIP-4788 contract

out.log

$ cat main.py
def union(x, y):                                                                                               [0/264]
    return set(x) | set(y)


def slots(slottime, buflen):
    base = 1694126615
    slots = []
    for n in range(buflen // slottime):
        slots.append(base + n * slottime % buflen)
    return slots


def analyze(buflen):
    print("buflen = ", buflen // 12)
    a = slots(4, buflen)
    b = slots(8, buflen)
    x = slots(12, buflen)
    c = slots(16, buflen)
    d = slots(24, buflen)
    e = slots(32, buflen)

    print("total slots used if slot time is  4: ", len(union(a, x)))
    print("total slots used if slot time is  8: ", len(union(b, x)))
    print("total slots used if slot time is 12: ", len(union(x, x)))
    print("total slots used if slot time is 16: ", len(union(c, x)))
    print("total slots used if slot time is 24: ", len(union(d, x)))
    print("total slots used if slot time is 32: ", len(union(e, x)))


analyze(98304)
analyze(93600)

$ python main.py
buflen =  8192
total slots used if slot time is  4:  24576
total slots used if slot time is  8:  16384
total slots used if slot time is 12:  8192
total slots used if slot time is 16:  12288
total slots used if slot time is 24:  8192
total slots used if slot time is 32:  10240
buflen =  7800
total slots used if slot time is  4:  23400
total slots used if slot time is  8:  15600
total slots used if slot time is 12:  7800
total slots used if slot time is 16:  11700
total slots used if slot time is 24:  7800
total slots used if slot time is 32:  9750