Another (unscientific) comparison of Mercurial and Bazaar

[Fabio Machado de Oliveira]

My main performance issue would be with the commit command (if I could 
get past the barrier of convincing 200+ people to change their version 
control). A single file commit in a project with 10000 files and 115 
directories:
 


           1337607 function calls (1299480 primitive calls) in 32.526 
CPU seconds

     Ordered by: cumulative time
     List reduced from 1023 to 20 due to restriction <20>

     ncalls  tottime  percall  cumtime  percall filename:lineno(function)
          1    0.000    0.000   32.526   32.526 
commands.py:368(run_argv_aliases)
          1    0.002    0.002   32.518   32.518 builtins.py:2187(run)
  10211/141    0.317    0.000   32.212    0.228 <string>:1(<module>)
          1    0.000    0.000   31.648   31.648 workingtree_4.py:242(commit)
          1    0.291    0.291   31.625   31.625 mutabletree.py:195(commit)
          1    0.001    0.001   31.321   31.321 commit.py:161(commit)
          1    0.064    0.064   26.271   26.271 
commit.py:574(_update_builder_with_changes)
          1    0.702    0.702   25.998   25.998 
commit.py:625(_populate_from_inventory)
      10042    0.441    0.000   14.977    0.001 commit.py:705(_record_entry)
      10042    0.481    0.000   12.783    0.001 
repository.py:1976(record_entry_contents)
      10041    0.298    0.000   10.967    0.001 inventory.py:419(snapshot)
      10042    0.447    0.000    7.785    0.001 workingtree_4.py:542(kind)
       9927    0.399    0.000    6.928    0.001 
inventory.py:700(_read_tree_state)
       9927    1.242    0.000    5.441    0.001 
workingtree_4.py:408(get_file_sha1)
      19971    0.566    0.000    4.645    0.000 
workingtree_4.py:390(_get_entry)
          3    0.082    0.027    4.159    1.386 knit.py:741(_add)
          2    0.038    0.019    3.835    1.918 
knit.py:634(_merge_annotations)
      19972    0.757    0.000    3.754    0.000 dirstate.py:1361(_get_entry)
          1    0.000    0.000    3.400    3.400 
inventory.py:440(_snapshot_into_revision)
          1    0.009    0.009    3.400    3.400 
inventory.py:719(_snapshot_text)