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.
if (gArgs.IsArgSet("-mintxfee")) {
        CAmount n = 0;
        if (!ParseMoney(gArgs.GetArg("-mintxfee", ""), n) || 0 == n) {
            chain.initError(AmountErrMsg("mintxfee", gArgs.GetArg("-mintxfee", "")));
            return nullptr;
        }
        if (n > HIGH_TX_FEE_PER_KB) {
            chain.initWarning(AmountHighWarn("-mintxfee") + " " +
                              _("This is the minimum transaction fee you pay on every transaction."));
        }
        walletInstance->m_min_fee = CFeeRate(n);
    }
    walletInstance->m_allow_fallback_fee = Params().IsFallbackFeeEnabled();
    if (gArgs.IsArgSet("-fallbackfee")) {
        CAmount nFeePerK = 0;
        if (!ParseMoney(gArgs.GetArg("-fallbackfee", ""), nFeePerK)) {
            chain.initError(strprintf(_("Invalid amount for -fallbackfee=<amount>: '%s'"), gArgs.GetArg("-fallbackfee", "")));
            return nullptr;
        }
        if (nFeePerK > HIGH_TX_FEE_PER_KB) {
            chain.initWarning(AmountHighWarn("-fallbackfee") + " " +
                              _("This is the transaction fee you may pay when fee estimates are not available."));
        }
        walletInstance->m_fallback_fee = CFeeRate(nFeePerK);
        walletInstance->m_allow_fallback_fee = nFeePerK != 0; 
    }
    if (gArgs.IsArgSet("-discardfee")) {
        CAmount nFeePerK = 0;
        if (!ParseMoney(gArgs.GetArg("-discardfee", ""), nFeePerK)) {
            chain.initError(strprintf(_("Invalid amount for -discardfee=<amount>: '%s'"), gArgs.GetArg("-discardfee", "")));