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Oct 22, 2026

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evoskuil02:23

That's the single threaded synchronous network stack doing its thing. All the peers shared that one thread, so the more connections there are, the slower each one is. So its doesn't really matter how fast you can get the block off the disk.

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2 replies · pmienk, evoskuil · last Oct 22, 2026

pmienk02:25

And yet, speed is the justification for storing the serialized block together?

evoskuil03:10

I think it's more about what was easy. But as indexes have been jammed into it it just becomes slower and more complex.