diff --git a/services/horizon/CHANGELOG.md b/services/horizon/CHANGELOG.md
index 938476638f..49125a18ab 100644
--- a/services/horizon/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/services/horizon/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -32,7 +32,9 @@ file. This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 - Improved performance of requests which query the lower boundary of horizon's history when running a horizon instance with the `--history-retention-count` flag. ([5410](https://github.com/stellar/go/pull/5410), [5448](https://github.com/stellar/go/pull/5448), [5465](https://github.com/stellar/go/pull/5465))
 
-- Improve performance of ingestion when running horizon with the `--history-retention-count` flag by executing reaping of history lookup tables concurrently with ingestion ([5405](https://github.com/stellar/go/pull/5405)).
+- Improve performance of ingestion when running horizon with the `--history-retention-count` flag by executing reaping of history lookup tables concurrently with ingestion. ([5405](https://github.com/stellar/go/pull/5405))
+
+- Improve performance of ingestion when consuming ledgers via the BufferedStorageBackend. ([5494](https://github.com/stellar/go/pull/5494))
 
 ## 2.32.0
 
diff --git a/support/compressxdr/compress_xdr.go b/support/compressxdr/compress_xdr.go
index 514251f971..7fc957d2a8 100644
--- a/support/compressxdr/compress_xdr.go
+++ b/support/compressxdr/compress_xdr.go
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ package compressxdr
 import (
 	"io"
 
-	xdr3 "github.com/stellar/go-xdr/xdr3"
+	"github.com/stellar/go/xdr"
 )
 
 func NewXDREncoder(compressor Compressor, xdrPayload interface{}) XDREncoder {
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ func (e XDREncoder) WriteTo(w io.Writer) (int64, error) {
 	}
 	defer zw.Close()
 
-	n, err := xdr3.Marshal(zw, e.XdrPayload)
+	n, err := xdr.Marshal(zw, e.XdrPayload)
 	return int64(n), err
 }
 
@@ -47,6 +47,6 @@ func (d XDRDecoder) ReadFrom(r io.Reader) (int64, error) {
 	}
 	defer zr.Close()
 
-	n, err := xdr3.Unmarshal(zr, d.XdrPayload)
+	n, err := xdr.Unmarshal(zr, d.XdrPayload)
 	return int64(n), err
 }
diff --git a/support/compressxdr/compress_xdr_test.go b/support/compressxdr/compress_xdr_test.go
index 82aa7e186c..79d6b65690 100644
--- a/support/compressxdr/compress_xdr_test.go
+++ b/support/compressxdr/compress_xdr_test.go
@@ -2,10 +2,13 @@ package compressxdr
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"os"
 	"testing"
 
-	"github.com/stellar/go/xdr"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/stellar/go/xdr"
 )
 
 func createTestLedgerCloseMetaBatch(startSeq, endSeq uint32, count int) xdr.LedgerCloseMetaBatch {
@@ -46,3 +49,34 @@ func TestEncodeDecodeLedgerCloseMetaBatch(t *testing.T) {
 		require.Equal(t, testData.LedgerCloseMetas[i], decodedData.LedgerCloseMetas[i])
 	}
 }
+
+func BenchmarkDecodeLedgerCloseMetaBatch(b *testing.B) {
+	lcmBatch := xdr.LedgerCloseMetaBatch{}
+	decoder := NewXDRDecoder(DefaultCompressor, &lcmBatch)
+
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		file, err := os.Open("testdata/FCD285FF--53312000.xdr.zstd")
+		require.NoError(b, err)
+
+		_, err = decoder.ReadFrom(file)
+		require.NoError(b, err)
+	}
+}
+
+func BenchmarkEncodeLedgerCloseMetaBatch(b *testing.B) {
+	lcmBatch := xdr.LedgerCloseMetaBatch{}
+	decoder := NewXDRDecoder(DefaultCompressor, &lcmBatch)
+	file, err := os.Open("testdata/FCD285FF--53312000.xdr.zstd")
+	require.NoError(b, err)
+
+	_, err = decoder.ReadFrom(file)
+	require.NoError(b, err)
+
+	b.ResetTimer()
+
+	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
+		encoder := NewXDREncoder(DefaultCompressor, &lcmBatch)
+		_, err = encoder.WriteTo(ioutil.Discard)
+		require.NoError(b, err)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/support/compressxdr/testdata/FCD285FF--53312000.xdr.zstd b/support/compressxdr/testdata/FCD285FF--53312000.xdr.zstd
new file mode 100644
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