Default performance of 'lp:foo' URLs

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Gordon Tyler writes:

 > SSH handshaking when all you want to do is pull the latest couple of
 > revisions into your clone of trunk is somewhat annoying.

Huh?  You can observe the difference between 5ms and 15 ms?  I can't.

Maybe you're seeing something very different, but I use ssh URLs with
Mercurial all the time and just don't notice any difference between
them and http URLs -- even when I was looking, it's just way below my
JND.  Most of the time is spent updating the tree.  I'm outside of
Tokyo, the server (alioth.debian.org) seems to be in Amsterdam
according to whois.  I do it with git all the time to a server on the
same local network.  Same result.  I've never heard any complaints
from my colleagues about delays with SSH, either.  (On the other hand,
they're all still euphoric -- after 18 months :-) -- about the sub-
second diff capability.)