Mar 24, 2023

The first 100k blocks are cropped, as they throw off the scale. These are ratios of total sync time by various store sizings at that time. Notice that once blocks fill up these remain essentially constant. Note that there is a slight inflection at around 480k. That is the point of segwit activation. At this point time/input (which includes witness) increases while time/output decreases. The net matches the time/archive, which makes sense since the archive is mostly inputs + outputs. It's not entirely clear to me why there remains a slight positive trend after segwit. This implies a slight non-linearity in cost. But obviously it is not a material issue, just a curiosity.