Bazaar performance

[Charles Duffy]

That's /very/ counter to my experience at a former employer revisioning 
our own branch of the Gentoo portage tree. (Don't ask why we didn't use 
overlays -- I don't want to go into it now).

The (then-experimental) packs branch of bzr outperformed both mercurial 
and git for the operations I tested; however, I was using local access 
only (no sftp involved); I don't think that the smart server was fully 
functional with packs at the time, but when this went to production, 
smart server access was in use.

I suspect that you could get significantly different numbers with some 
tuning. I don't have the email I wrote up with my methodology and 
timings anymore -- though I think I may have sent it to rcollins at the 
time. (Robert -- or anyone -- if you've got it, go ahead and post; the 
folks I was worried about getting permission from at the time are no 
longer there).