Comment 9 for bug 116094

I'm marking this as fix released for the following reasons:
 - comparing to hg one has to use shared repositories - hg hardlinks its database files together, which *doesn't actual clone or validate the data*. The analagous operation in bzr is branching within a shared repository, so that benchmark should be used, and with 2a we're very fast - faster than untarring a bz2 file in some benchmarks we did.
 - comapring to a git clone over the wire is more reasonable, and we've improvd a lot here too - I did a few tests not long ago showing both git and bzr were capped at network speed, where repository size starts to dominate
 - repository size is a big factor, and our 2a format brings that into line with git and hg.

I'm certainly supportive of bugs like this, but we should try to keep them focused, and this has become kindof a meta one, which is why I'm closing it: its not a particularly useful bookmark for developers or users.