Bazaar performance

[Ian Clatworthy]

Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> Guido Ostkamp wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> after finishing a conversion from Git to Bazaar with help of Ian
>> Clatworthy (thanks, again, Ian!), I did some initial performance tests
>> with Bazaar compared to Git and Mercurial on my large repository (~11000
>> files, > 41000 changesets, repo size > ~500 MB).
> 
> Guido,
> 
> You *really* need to run bzr pack before running performance tests on
> the repository we generated via that import. In the process of getting
> the conversion done, we created a *huge* number of pack files (rather
> than 1 per 10k as fastimport would normally do).

FWIW, I've now enhanced bzr-fastexport so that it packs the repository
on completion. That should cut down the number of times we need to ask
"Did you pack the repo before you benchmarked?".

Ian C.