Why is bzr pull via http soooooo sloooooow?

[Stefan Reichör]

Hi!

I monitor the development of bzr. Today I run bzr missing & bzr pull
to get an up to date copy:

  # time bzr missing
  Using last location: http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzr/bzr.dev/
  You are missing 14 revision(s):
  ------------------------------------------------------------
  revno: 1765
  committer: Canonical.com Patch Queue Manager<pqm at pqm.ubuntu.com>
  branch nick: +trunk
  timestamp: Mon 2006-06-12 02:12:14 +0100
  message:
    Stop using shlex in run_bzr_subprocess
  ------------------------------------------------------------

  snip...

  ----------------------------------------------------------

  revno: 1752
  committer: Canonical.com Patch Queue Manager<pqm at pqm.ubuntu.com>
  branch nick: +trunk
  timestamp: Thu 2006-06-08 07:38:32 +0100
  message:
    (jam,mbp,wvh) Lots of updates to unicode,url,and encoding support
  bzr missing  0.75s user 0.09s system 0% cpu 4:00.91 total


  # time bzr pull
  Using saved location: http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzr/bzr.dev/
  All changes applied successfully.
  14 revision(s) pulled.
  bzr pull  4.89s user 0.54s system 0% cpu 21:03.38 total


So missing took 4 minutes and pull took 21 minutes for 14 revisions!!
I used a rather recent version (bzr (bazaar-ng) 0.9.0dev0).

So my questions are now:
* Is bzr really that slow?
* Am I doing something wrong?
* Do I need some extra libraries to speed things up?

Stefan.