Some unscientific timing results (on the Python source tree)

[Stefan Monnier]

> slow streaming affects nearly everyone.  Making compressed streaming
> the default and providing a tuning switch for others seems a better
> choice if we're trying to work the best we can out of the box for most
> users.

Of course, if your connection is via sftp or ssh+bzr, you may already
use compression (and Bzr's own compression would just waste resources).


        Stefan