Can "bzr annotate" be sped up?

[John Yates]

John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote on 06/17/2011 09:23:54 
AM:

> As it stands now, --ignore-whitespace wouldn't be too hard to implement,
> but you have quite a few api's that need to be changed to pass the new
> flag around.

Why imply a particular comparison semantic based on a flag?  Why not 
simply pass in an arbitrary comparison function?  Or were you referring 
mainly to the UI?

/john