bazaar performance with single large project and a comparison with?git / mercurial

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Torsten Bronger writes:

 > The unfortunate thing here is not so much Bazaar's performance per
 > se in my option.  Before Git, nobody really cared about benchmarking
 > VCS'es.  Well, at least this has become *much* more popular since
 > then.  Fact is that even Bazaar is fast enough for >90% of the
 > projects out there.

Actually, that depends on the user.  For me, a commit that takes the
same perceptible amount of time as a file save is a big win; any
perceptible delay causes me to use a file save rather than a commit
too often.  On a 1.3GHz iBook G4, at least, the startup overhead of
both bzr and Mercurial is perceptible and annoying compared to git.

This would be ameliorated greatly by a Darcs-style hunk-by-hunk commit
front-end, though.

 > Eric Raymond is writing an essay comparing DVCS'es.

Don't count your essays before they hatch.  Eric finishes some essays,
but not all of them.  AFAICT nothing much has happened with that since
January.