hg performance

[Simon 'corecode' Schubert]

Dustin Sallings wrote:
>   This is one of the problems I'm having with git.  In hg, I can do the same thing on a small tree or a large tree and get acceptable performance.  I didn't think to look for a different command to use for a larger tree.  I mean, why don't they just make the small tree command reasonably fast?
> 
>   Git took about seven minutes for an add+commit.  Hg took about two.  Perhaps there's a way to make git faster, but that's certainly not a selling point.  git is starting to look like gnu arch to me.

Okay, I was joking about the fast-import.  Of course add+commit should be as fast as possible (however adding 80k files isn't something you do every day, so that shouldn't be such a big issue).

I'll see if I can reproduce this issue and then bring it up on the git mailinglist.  If not, I'll come back to you.

cheers
  simon