Single aggregated contracts vs data spread across multiple contracts - performance / design considerations

[StephenOTT]

@Gary_Verhaegen is a specific thread you would recommend? I had done a search for aggregation but did not see anything on the deeper trade-offs. This was the one that seems the more complex:

Adding Increment Quantity Changes to a Contract

I may have interpreted your question overly broadly, trying to include every relevant topic I can think of, but here goes: In Daml, as in all purely functional languages, we use the definition of variable given by Bob Harper here. That is, to say that you can replace i with i + 1 is not dissimilar from saying that you can replace 5 with 5 + 1, whereupon 5 ceases to exist any longer. But the below is allowed. template Ticker with owner: Party n: Int where signatory owner key …