Why is there a discrepancy in total workflow time and can combining node code steps in a single step optimize speed?

As raising memory will proportionally increase CPU

That’d be a good test to try out

ok, well maybe when I’m done developing I just start a fresh workflow for prod without anything disabled and see if I’m seeing such discrepancies

and I will do that as well

Cool, let me know if both these approaches help speed up

will do, thank you!