It looks like 1242+1243 have made a significant difference. I wanted to quantify it before announcing them on the website.
I did 3 manual bootstrapping tests - create a new node from the installer, see how long it takes to reach different numbers of peers. These show 3 peers in under 30 seconds, 5 in around 1 minute and 10 in around 3 minutes. These are only accurate to 10 seconds or so due to manual timing, and in all cases I started it fetching various sites etc, so there is both path folding and announcement going on - as there would be on a newbie node usually. Note that the peers limit was 14, so it stops announcing at 7 peers, hence it taking a relatively long time to get to 10 peers. Then I ran the automated bootstrap tester 5 times in succession. This announces and doesn't path fold, or doesn't path fold much. I got the following results (time to 6 peers; it announces right up to that point): 0:41, 8:22, 2:52, 0:27, 0:15 It also ran this morning and got a result of 3:12. This is not exceptional. By month: August: 2:06 September: 2:15 October: 2:46 November: 2:51 December: 2:59 January: 2:47 February: 3:51 March: 3:53 (not including today) As you can see the situation has got worse over time. :| Anyway, the one that ran this morning was running at around 4AM GMT, it is possible that many nodes had not upgraded at that point etc, IMHO it is not very significant. So what of the outliers in the group of 5 tests? It looks like they might be related to local networking issues. First, running them in quick succession means we will be bombarded by handshakes from previous instances. Second, this is running on my system which is a seednode with relatively low bandwidth and apache as well. So I turned off apache and further throttled my seednode, and introduced a 6 minute delay between each sample, and I got: 1:42 1:57 0:35 1:53 3:15 This is all rather confusing! Clearly my system is not the best place to be measuring this from.
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