I do. We had horrible download\merge\resolve times at my place because of some poor choices (storing many copies of large binary files across all branches in pe

I do. We had horrible download\merge\resolve times at my place because of some poor choices (storing many copies of large binary files across all branches in perforce) and it made a huge improvement in development time when those issues were resolved. Granted, this was an extreme case, but VC performance is not irrelevant to the cost of software development.