I've re-run the tests on SOLR sync using an updated procedure (since after XWiki 17.8.0 have been made some improvements on SOLR indexing) and the following times were obtained on 17.10.2 on my machine:
SOLR sync when index is empty: 2.72 sec
SOLR sync when there is nothing to do: 756 ms
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