re-assigning this to bzr, as this is as slow on native bzr lightweight checkouts as on svn lightweight checkouts with the recent svn/bzr-foreign performance improvements.
charis:~/tmp/bzr-lw% time bzr st
bzr st 0.32s user 0.06s system 7% cpu 5.326 total
charis:~/tmp/svn-lw% time ~/bzr/foreign/bzr st
~/bzr/foreign/bzr st 1.43s user 0.34s system 37% cpu 4.722 total
re-assigning this to bzr, as this is as slow on native bzr lightweight checkouts as on svn lightweight checkouts with the recent svn/bzr-foreign performance improvements.
charis: ~/tmp/bzr- lw% time bzr st
bzr st 0.32s user 0.06s system 7% cpu 5.326 total
charis: ~/tmp/svn- lw% time ~/bzr/foreign/bzr st
~/bzr/foreign/bzr st 1.43s user 0.34s system 37% cpu 4.722 total