Performing the following (note the range of 10,000):

`importmulti '[{"desc": "sh(wpkh([aeee1e6a/49h/1h/0h]tpubDC5bVdaveQYxGFztMShFAjU637kKjrs9FD8ne1oHR7z8tLeQJExsaxWRVeSpcCcYMdp5ecf2LQhuVaeYFZ7YEpvWTJr4nDGUJrmuvLuTSsp/1/*))", "keypool": true, "timestamp": "now", "watchonly": true, "internal": true, "range": {"end": 1000}}]' '{"rescan": false}'`

takes many minutes. @achow101 reports a similar import taking 6 minutes on his machine.
{
    
    WalletBatch batch(*database);
    batch.ErasePool(nIndex);
    WalletLogPrintf("keypool keep %d\n", nIndex);
}
void CWallet::ReturnKey(int64_t nIndex, bool fInternal, const CPubKey& pubkey)
{
    
    {
        LOCK(cs_wallet);
        if (fInternal) {
            setInternalKeyPool.insert(nIndex);
        } else if (!set_pre_split_keypool.empty()) {
            set_pre_split_keypool.insert(nIndex);
        } else {
            setExternalKeyPool.insert(nIndex);
        }
        m_pool_key_to_index[pubkey.GetID()] = nIndex;
        NotifyCanGetAddressesChanged();
    }
    WalletLogPrintf("keypool return %d\n", nIndex);
}
bool CWallet::GetKeyFromPool(CPubKey& result, bool internal)