Some unscientific timing results (on the Python source tree)

[Ian Clatworthy]

Paul Moore wrote:
 overall I
> prefer Bazaar's UI, feature set, and development pace. I've watched
> Bazaar drive for more speed with great interest, as it would
> immediately swing the decision for me if there were no speed
> difference, but I'm no longer sure, now that packs have landed, if
> there's the same drive for speed as there was in the run-up to 1.0).

Improving performance is still very much at the top of our list of
things to do. We know we still have some distance to go, particularly
for network operations and some 'full history' operations like log.

During 2008, my expectation is that performance will continue improving
month to month just as it did during 2007. As Robert explained in a
recent email, *some* operations were greatly improved by packs while
others still have a lot of scope for improvement. Over and above tuning
internal algorithms, we're also working on generally useful features
that will help performance on large projects, e.g. stacked branches,
filtered views.

Ian C.