May 26, 2024

So that puts the full chain, validated in 13 start/stop segments, at 5 hours. There are certainly inefficiencies in the first take, including the cold starts, lack of avx512 machine, lack of sha-ni implementation, non-management of validation buffer. But we also aren't yet validating the blocks (tiny by comparison, maybe 1 minute for the full chain) or verifying confirmability (at least 30 minutes for the full chain).