Oct 31, 2025

The response time for p2p block output is certainly less than the data format above, despite having the same serialization, as there is no http overhead. So I think we can lay to rest any concerns about not being able to rapidly serve blocks to peers. If we had the blocks already stuffed on the SSD in wire serialization, they could maybe be served a tiny bit faster. But then of course every other query would be horrendous.