Re: Surely 'bzr branch' shouldn't be this slow?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> 39 minutes for branching outside the shared repository corresponds to a
>> slow machine. It is 10 minutes on a GNU/Linux 2.4 GHz 64 bits
>> worksation-class machine.

> I don't think the time it takes to make the original branch (or a
> branch outside the shared repo) is CPU-bound.  It took me 50 minutes
> on a 3GHz Windows machine with a single hyperthreaded core, and the
> CPU time used by bzr never went up to more than 25%.

It's both CPU and IO bound, last I tried.
It's just not very efficient.


        Stefan