Bazaar performance

[David Cournapeau]

Teemu Likonen wrote:
> Ian Clatworthy wrote (2008-05-18 10:47 +1000):
>
>   
>> The text was correct at the time it was written. Feel free to update
>> it.

I think that presenting git's speed as an earlier advantage is 
misleading. Git is still one order of magnitude faster than bzr for 
almost all the operations for big projects and projects with big 
histories. At least, it should state that bzr used to be slow for 
working tree operations (before pack), and is now usable of big trees. 
Something like (sorry for the syntax, English is not my native language):

"It's true that Git is really fast at many operations and that Bazaar 
was once quite slow. We made some big progress, and Our comprehensive 
performance benchmarks <http://bazaar-vcs.org/Benchmarks> show that bzr 
is fast enough for a large spectrum of projects when working on the 
working tree. It is still a bit slow for big histories (> 10 000 
changesets), but we are currently working on it (and already made good 
progress for commands like log, blame and diff for a given set of 
revisions since bzr 1.3). Git is also likely to be faster than Bazaar 
for network operations but we expect that difference to disappear by Q2 
2008."

cheers,

David