More time is spent in HashLeaf allocating, than hashing:

https://github.com/celestiaorg/nmt/blob/master/hasher.go#L190
https://flamegraph.com/share/a54e891a-1114-11ee-b13f-de9431916b05
Possibly related:
In celestia-node, min and max namespace take up 200MB (20%) of RAM
