Refs #454 -- Added ShortCircuiting to general/build/smart-contracts/gas-optimization

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+# Short-Circuiting
+
+In Solidity, where every blockchain-affecting operation requires gas, short-circuiting is a coding technique that evaluates the second argument of a logical operation only if the first doesn't conclusively determine the outcome, thus significantly reducing unnecessary gas consumption and enhancing efficiency.
+
+**DemoCode**
+
+Below, we demonstrates how short-circuiting can be applied to minimize gas usage:
+
+```solidity
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+pragma solidity ^0.8.13;
+
+contract LogicOptimization {
+    // High gas consumption function
+    function heavy() public pure returns (bool ok) {
+        uint num;
+        for (uint256 i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
+            num = i + 1;
+        }
+        ok = true;
+    }
+
+    // Low gas consumption function
+    function light() public pure returns (bool ok) {
+        ok = true;
+    }
+
+    // No short-circuiting: higher gas usage
+    function basic() external pure {
+        heavy() || light(); // Evaluates both heavy() and light()
+    }
+
+    // With short-circuiting: reduced gas usage
+    function efficient() external pure {
+        light() || heavy(); // light() evaluated first, heavy() skipped if light() is true
+    }
+}
+```
+
+Recommendations for gas optimization: 
+
+🌟 Utilize **short-circuiting** to prevent unnecessary function calls or computations.
+
+🌟 Place functions or conditions likely to succeed (or that are less gas-consuming) **before** others in logical operations.
+
+🌟 Understand the gas cost of operations and structure your code to minimize these costs whenever possible.