Comment 16 for bug 593560

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John A Meinel (jameinel) wrote :

I'll also try to expand on what Robert mentioned. At present, if you do something like "bzr co --lightweight" and the source location has a working tree, it tries to read the content from that working tree, rather than extracting the content from the repository.

This *used* to be faster (pre 2a formats). I'm guessing it no longer holds true. If we removed that logic, you would be saving ~90s from your checkout time. 30s in 'iter_changes' and 60s from reading the old content. I don't know what the specific cost for extraction would be, but at least on your encrypted filesystem, it seems that opening lots of files is much more expensive than doing more work from a single larger file.

Could you try doing:

 time bzr co source test1
 cd test1
 bzr remove-tree .
 cd ..
 time bzr co --lightweight --lsprof-file colw-nosourcewt.lsprof test1 test2

And see what that gives us?