Brief article on benchmarks of Python repository with leading DVCSen

[Nicholas Allen]

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Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> To avoid downloading them when branching outside of a shared repo.
> 
> Note that some of the problem is not just download-time: even just doing
> a local clone (outside of a shared repository) takes too much time.
> So keeping such a cache wouldn't necessarily help enough.
> Beter solve the problem at its root.

I think they are 2 separate problems. It really doesn't matter how fast
you make an initial clone it is always going to be slow as far as the
user is concerned.

A cache helps solve the problems when working with remote branches. Any
speed up locally would be in addition to that. But speeding up locally
is not going to make branching remote locations faster.

Nick
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