to group compress or not to group compress

[Stefan Monnier]

> I don't think that is entirely true. It depends on the magnitude, but
> people often use "this takes XXX MB" as a benchmark.

Of course, they do, but current disk use of Bzr is good enough that
improving it won't bring us many new converts.  Speed on the other hand
is an issue that's brought up a lot more often by people who don't
necessarily do comparisons with other VCS.

> Anyway, it certainly isn't the highest priority, but I do think it is a
> common measurement (if only because it is easy to do).

Yes, it's easy to do.  But if disk space is an issue, there's already
a lot of options you can use to try and circumvent the problem: shared
repositories, lightweight checkouts, stackable branches.  OTOH if "bzr
annotate" is too slow for your taste, there's not much you can do.


        Stefan