That is hard to estimate, but I think I need the same or less time for studying them. But of course the issue is how one reads them and how much one spends into extracting the hidden ideas and translating them into one’s own mental structures (instead of turning one’s mind into an emulation of the author’s one) . One can study and understand very advanced papers fast and well without a productive “translation”, and the more one knows, the easier it is to restrict reading that way.
That is hard to estimate, but I think I need the same or less time for studying them. But of course the issue is how one reads them and how much one spends into extracting the hidden ideas and translating them into one’s own mental structures (instead of turning one’s mind into an emulation of the author’s one) . One can study and understand very advanced papers fast and well without a productive “translation”, and the more one knows, the easier it is to restrict reading that way.