Jun 11, 2024

Generally this only affects the tail of the chain, like validation, above the milestone block. However for a full chain validation that's too slow. Keep in mind that the first 300k blocks or so are trivial. These numbers are for full blocks, about 5k txs each. So 1 billion txs (at current heights) and 5,000 tx/block and 5 blocks/sec you get 25k txs/sec or 40,000 secs total (11.1 hours). If that can be divided in full by my 64 cores, it reduces to 10.4 minutes. However, disk speed is likely to be a limiting factor (CPU utilization is trivial). Moving on to that next.