Pinocchio Counter

The Solana program is ~13.85kb, impressive size for what it does.

• Same example in anchor would be ~190kb.
• Same example in solana-program is ~100kb.

Features

• pinocchio for program development.
• mollusk for testing and benchmarking.
• GH Action for building, testing and benchmarking.
• cli rust-based cli using solana-client and solana-sdk.

How To

Build contract

$ cargo build-sbf

Deploy contract

$ solana program deploy -u d --program-id ./program-id.json \
  -k ./deployer.json \
  --upgrade-authority ./deployer.json \
  ./target/deploy/counter_pinocchio.so

Test

$ cargo test --features test-default

Benchmark

$ cargo bench --features bench-default

Attributions

Thanks @nagaprasadvr for his work on http://github.com/Nagaprasadvr/solana-pinocchio-starter

Benches

2025-07-03 05:05:34.478002 UTC

Solana CLI Version: solana-cli 2.1.14 (src:3ad46824; feat:3271415109, client:Agave)

Name	CUs	Delta
create_counter	3220	- new -
increase_by_1	1698	- new -
increase_by_100	1698	- new -
increase_by_large_number	1698	- new -