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.
{
    LOCK(cs_wallet);
    m_wallet_flags &= ~flag;
    if (!WalletBatch(*database).WriteWalletFlags(m_wallet_flags))
        throw std::runtime_error(std::string(__func__) + ": writing wallet flags failed");
}
bool CWallet::IsWalletFlagSet(uint64_t flag)
{
    return (m_wallet_flags & flag);
}
bool CWallet::SetWalletFlags(uint64_t overwriteFlags, bool memonly)
{
    LOCK(cs_wallet);
    m_wallet_flags = overwriteFlags;
    if (((overwriteFlags & g_known_wallet_flags) >> 32) ^ (overwriteFlags >> 32)) {
        
        return false;
    }
    if (!memonly && !WalletBatch(*database).WriteWalletFlags(m_wallet_flags)) {
        throw std::runtime_error(std::string(__func__) + ": writing wallet flags failed");
    }
    return true;
}
int64_t CWalletTx::GetTxTime() const