Can "bzr annotate" be sped up?

[Aaron Bentley]

On 19/06/2011 9:22 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 2) I thought bzr packs use delta compression

The current pack format uses groupcompress, which is not really delta 
compression.  Instead, it uses the instructions used to create other 
revisions as part of its input.

Earlier pack-based formats used knits, so they were delta-compressed, 
and we did use those deltas to speed annotation.

Aaron