Remind me to tell you sometime about collecting a half-billion lines of syslog data per day from 750,000 hosts, all sent to a single IP address. And storing several years of it in a searchable format.
My hugo site has just under 7,500 content pages, and builds in 13 seconds. As you’ll see in my other reply, I dug into exactly why his build is so much slower, and the answer appears to be “number of distinct terms in the taxonomies”. That builds a much larger in-RAM data structure, and spends a lot of time searching through it.
-j