Why is bzr pull via http soooooo sloooooow?

[Michael Ellerman]

On 6/13/06, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> Also the number 14 is a little bit misleading. There are only 14
> mainline revisions, but it amounts to > 100 total merged revisions. (The
> encoding merge itself was > 80 revisions).

Perhaps we should print that as well, so that users aren't left
wondering why two pulls that both pull "1 revisions" take vastly
different times? We could even report the number of bytes pulled down,
it might make people feel better.

cheers