Separate reading & writing into scoped threads #1129
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If the index is on a SSD, sync perfomance should improve.
When the blocks' data is stored on a HDD, it takes ~3h to finish the initial sync (without full compactions, which take an additional ~1h):
Most of the time is spent waiting for p2p messages (i.e. bitcoind reading blocks from the spinning disk):
Writing the index is done in parallel with the reading: