I hear all this stuff about bazaar being slower than git. I haven't used too much distributed version control yet, but in Bazaar vs. Git on the bazaar site, they say that most complaints about performance aren't true anymore. Have you found this to be true? Is performance pretty much on par now?
I've heard that speed can affect workflow (people are more likely to do good thing X if X is fast). What specific cases does performance currently affect workflow in bazaar vs other systems (especially git), and how?
I'm just trying to get at why performance is of particular importance. Usually when I check something in or update it, I expect it to take a little while, but it doesn't matter. I commit/update when I have a second, so it doesn't interfere with my productivity. But then I haven't used DVCS yet, so maybe that has something to do with it?
The python developers recently decided to switch to Mercurial and as part of the process did some basic benchmarking of git, Mercurial and Bazaar which is documented in PEP-374.
An incredibly rough eye balling of the numbers they posted showed Bazaar to be 2-4x slower than either git or Mercurial in the use cases tested.
That being said, the message conveyed on python-dev was that all of them (git, Mercurial, Bazaar) are better than Subversion, for the most part they are fast enough and the choice of Mercurial over git/Bazaar was mostly based on the gut feelings of the BFDL and the attendees of PyCon2009.