Learn how to manage Solana's compute budget, prioritize transactions, and optimize your program's execution efficiency to avoid compute unit limits.

Overview

Every transaction on Solana consumes compute units (CU), a measure of computational resources used during execution. Understanding how to manage and optimize these resources is critical for building efficient Solana programs.

Key topics covered:

• Understanding Solana's compute budget and limits
• How to set custom compute budgets for complex transactions
• Measuring compute unit consumption in your programs
• Techniques to reduce compute unit usage through code optimization
• Using compute unit prices for transaction prioritization
• Common causes of "out of compute units" errors and how to solve them
• Best practices for balancing compute usage and transaction costs

This guide is essential for developers working on complex Solana programs that push the boundaries of on-chain computation. By optimizing your program's compute usage, you can create more powerful applications that remain efficient and cost-effective for users.