Smart server performance (bzr+http)

[Adam Glauser]

I've finally managed to get Bazaar and IIS to play nicely.  I sure wish 
SSH the standard in Windows-land that it is in *nix land.  :)

Now I'm trying to convince myself that it was worth it.  In my limited 
testing, it seems that straight file:// access beats bzr+http:// access 
hands down.  So far I've only tried `bzr log` and `bzr branches`.

I've searched the Bazaar documentation and this list's history, but I 
can't find any information about which operations are better/worse using 
the smart server.

Is file:// preferred in a LAN environment?