Bazaar performance

[Ian Clatworthy]

David Cournapeau wrote:
> Teemu Likonen wrote:
>> Ian Clatworthy wrote (2008-05-18 10:47 +1000):
>>
>>  
>>> The text was correct at the time it was written. Feel free to update
>>> it.

> Something like (sorry for the syntax, English is not my native language):
> 
> "It's true that Git is really fast at many operations and that Bazaar
> was once quite slow. We made some big progress, and Our comprehensive
> performance benchmarks <http://bazaar-vcs.org/Benchmarks> show that bzr
> is fast enough for a large spectrum of projects when working on the
> working tree. It is still a bit slow for big histories (> 10 000
> changesets), but we are currently working on it (and already made good
> progress for commands like log, blame and diff for a given set of
> revisions since bzr 1.3). Git is also likely to be faster than Bazaar
> for network operations but we expect that difference to disappear by Q2
> 2008."

I think we're still a long way from finished in our work on tuning log
(for example) so let's make sure we're not implying we're done.
Otherwise, I'm happy for you to make that change.

Ian C.