diff --git a/docs/fuzzing.rst b/docs/fuzzing.rst
index 215efae45..4c08d8d18 100644
--- a/docs/fuzzing.rst
+++ b/docs/fuzzing.rst
@@ -75,6 +75,24 @@ large fuzz targets. Call `b2` like this::
 
 	b2 clang stage-large -j$(nproc)
 
+fast+slow
+---------
+
+When building an initial corpus, it can be useful to quickly build a corpus with
+a large code coverage. To speed up this process, you can build the fuzzers
+without sanitizers, asserts and invariant checks. This won't find as many errors,
+but build a good corpus which can then be run against a fully instrumented
+fuzzer.
+
+To build the fuzzers in this "fast" mode, there's a build variant `build_coverage`.
+Invoke `b2` like this::
+
+	b2 clang stage build_coverage -j$(nproc)
+
+For more details on "fast + slow" see `Paul Dreik's talk`_.
+
+.. _`Paul Dreik's talk`: https://youtu.be/e_Oc9SkCo5s?t=1679
+
 sharing corpora
 ---------------
 
diff --git a/docs/hunspell/libtorrent.dic b/docs/hunspell/libtorrent.dic
index c182b1128..c6d9c2414 100644
--- a/docs/hunspell/libtorrent.dic
+++ b/docs/hunspell/libtorrent.dic
@@ -469,3 +469,4 @@ fuzzer
 libFuzzer
 clang's
 prev
+Dreik's
diff --git a/fuzzers/Jamfile b/fuzzers/Jamfile
index 024ed199f..b661f1dd6 100644
--- a/fuzzers/Jamfile
+++ b/fuzzers/Jamfile
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ use-project /torrent : .. ;
 feature fuzz : off external on : composite propagated link-incompatible ;
 feature.compose <fuzz>on : <cflags>-fsanitize=fuzzer <linkflags>-fsanitize=fuzzer ;
 
+# this is a build configuration that only does limited validation (i.e. no
+# sanitizers, invariant-checks, asserts etc.). The purpose is to quickly iterate
+# on inputs to build code coverage
+variant build_coverage : release : <sanitize>off <debug-symbols>on <asserts>off <invariant-checks>off ;
+
 project fuzzers
 	: requirements
 	<export-extra>on