Link: mercurial and bazaar timings

[Martin Pool]

2009/12/7 Andrew Bennetts <andrew.bennetts at canonical.com>:
> Tim Michelsen wrote:
>> Hello,
>> this may be of interest for the Bazaar developers:
>>
>> mercurial and bazaar timings
>> http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/261a360eaba86b02/ebed44f7e03ad89e?lnk=gst&q=mercurial#ebed44f7e03ad89e
>
> As Alexander says, that's comparing apples with oranges.  That mercurial
> repository appears to contain just 2 revisions, but the repository on
> Launchpad had 1423 revisions.
>
> So, Bazaar might have taken 300x as long, but it fetched much more than
> 300x the revisions.

It's true.  I followed up there.

I think they are hitting a serious bug though in that lp: urls are
slow by default, as raised by Ben and others recently.  I was sure
there was a bug for that, but I couldn't find one, so I filed
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-code/+bug/493389


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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>