> It seems I cannot post a performance comparison without people asking about disk caches. :) Sorry, the speedup was very great so it almost seemed like someth

> It seems I cannot post a performance comparison without people asking about disk caches. :) Sorry, the speedup was very great so it almost seemed like something else was causing it. Thanks for the benchmarks. > Third of all, you can run the tests yourself -- I gave you the exact commands to try. "I tried it and my results are X" is a much better contribution to the discussion. That's true; I'm lazy. Actually, I was thinking more of the disk cache of loading hg, not the repo (Python programs tend to have a great speedup through the disk cache).