Bitcoin full node and query server

Jul 12, 2021

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Phil21:03
Dear Eric just curious, my log shows Block #179900 [00000000000003e21e4c75bb543ac7d6859fe9e27c7ce5872287391ea955ce37] (snip) Valid #065100 [000000000777c9285c621edc2889207de4b5c9b718c3f006dc2107a0b4d69b18] Is it that block validation is fully decouped from block download, why is it, is there a performance consideration underlying? (I guess internally blocks need to be validated in a sequence, and meanwhile thanks to header first sync actually block download order can be nonsequential. Is that why I get block 1379,900 downloaded before block 65,100 is validated?)