Slow "bzr branch" on Savannah

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I would be interested in seeing the results of using nosmart+ URL by
> Ulrich (CC'ed).  Since I observed it to be a win only on a machine
> that sits on the same LAN as bzr.savannah.gnu.org, I hesitate whether
> to update the wiki at http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BzrForEmacsDevs
> to advise people use nosmart+ on the first "bzr branch" command.  But
> if there's a similar speedup on remote machines, I will make that
> change on the wiki.

Thanks for CCing me. I've done some tests for the initial "bzr branch"
over a 3 Mbit/s connection:

   bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk
   6949.356  Transferred: 469739kB (67.6kB/s r:469659kB w:80kB)

   nosmart+bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk
   2919.117  Transferred: 524353kB (179.7kB/s r:524162kB w:191kB)

So the transferred data volume is slightly higher in the second case,
but IMHO it more than pays off in terms of total time.

Ulrich