why is update/merge required after a pull?

[Matthieu Moy]

Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.freenix.fr> writes:

> Do you have big trees with play with to have a good comparison between the
> two?

I didn't do much benchmarking, but roughly, bzr has done considerable
progresses performance-wise. I'd now say the speed is "acceptable" for
reasonably big trees (it's useable on the Linux kernel for example),
but still behind hg and git, by a factor > 2.

-- 
Matthieu