Bazaar performance

[Vincent Ladeuil]

>>>>> "David" == David Cournapeau <david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> writes:

    David> 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.

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

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

+1 on tone and intent.

Please update the wiki, you deserve the attribution.

       Vincent