I am missing something so far in reading this (excellent resource). I read the part about transactions for the most part, but I don't understand the actual code evaluation part, and how long it takes. So if you have a low-priority transaction (because of a low-fee), it could take "a long time" to run, or potentially never. If you have a high-priority transaction (high fee), then it will get run "quicker" or "with higher probability". My question is what actually is happening between the moment of a transaction being "created" and it being "added to a block". I wonder if your code is actually run before the transaction is actually added to the block and validated, or it's never run until fully validated. I wonder because this seems like a huge performance slow-down in resource-intensive applications, and I wonder what people do there.

Here it says:

A new block, containing transactions that occurred since the last block, is "mined" every 10 minutes on average, thereby adding those transactions to the blockchain.

So my question then basically is, if your code doesn't evaluate until that 10 minutes passes, or when the code actually evaluates. Basically what happens between a transaction being created and when it is incorporated into a block.