Brief article on benchmarks of Python repository with leading DVCSen

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Nicholas Allen writes:

 > It looks like they didn't use a shared repository in Bazaar so perhaps 
 > the results are not that meaningful.

Unfortunately, the feedback we (the authors of PEP 374) have so far
from Python developers is to the contrary.  Anything that doesn't
happen automatically is "too complex" to ask the Python developers to
do, so whatever is most straightforward is what is going to benchmarked.

 > I think the time Bazaar saves me with its proper support for renaming 
 > and merging is far more significant than a few seconds performing not so 
 > frequent commands. The time I spend developing is much greater than the 
 > time I spend waiting for Bazaar so it's not really a big issue for me. 

Sure, and that's what almost all Bazaar fans say.  It's not persuading
a large fraction of the Python developers (not to mention the Emacs
developers), though.  Performance matters.