Are there any existing tools to measure the time required for block and transaction validation？

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The validation time of transactions and blocks has a great impact on the performance of the Bitcoin network. Are there any special measuring tools that can be used?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 23 '21 at 05:54

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Bitcoin Core has inbuilt benchmarks which can be enabled using debug=bench, which breaks down the validation time of incoming blocks.

answered Mar 23 '21 at 05:54

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How to enable "debug=bench" please? – GoneV Mar 23 '21 at 08:35
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/66892/13866 and https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.20.0#notable-changes – RedGrittyBrick Mar 23 '21 at 09:27

Are there any existing tools to measure the time required for block and transaction validation？

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