bzr too slow

[Denys Duchier]

John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:

> If it turns out that the specific hot-spot is writing out the
> hash-cache, then I agree completely that it is worth fixing.

It is just one issue, but consider that the linux tree has close to 19000 plain
files and as a consequence the stat-cache is big (I interrupted "bzr status"
after 84mn and the stat-cache is 1.5Mb) and you are going to write it for every
file that has changed.  that's a lot of data to shuffle.

Cheers,

--Denys