Can parallel validation side-step the slow block issue?

[AntoineP]

@evoskuil

This seems to assume that all blocks of the same height have the same amount of work.

All blocks with the same parent will always have the same amount of work.

@evoskuil

Concurrent validation of competing blocks would only make sense if they had the same amount of work. I’m have no idea how common this is.

Fork.observer says there has been 23 1-block reorgs since block height 845,625 (2024-05-29).

@ajtowns

At the moment, I’d expect block relay to be pretty severely impacted by slow validation.

This is also what i would expect and is confirmed by the couple basic experiments i ran on Warnet. Since the transaction in the block wasn’t previously announced the propagation time to a node is the validation time times the number of nodes on the shorter path between it and the emitter.