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I've had no problems with speed. How big of a repository are you working on? The largest I work on is about 70MB of source (code, html, images, documentation, etc.). I use a shared repository and branches take maybe a second or 2 to create.

Thats very informative. Thanks.

Attempt to clone Emacs' repository (http://savannah.gnu.org/bzr/?group=emacs) sometime and you'll understand he's being very informative.

Or I could stick to the launchpad mirror[1] which is extremely fast. savannah uses dumb http for bzr[2] and hence it is slow. I have been using the launchpad mirror for some time now.

[1] https://launchpad.net/emacs

[2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/121222

Is it still slow in v2.0+ ? They quote 1.0 sec commits on the Firefox 3.5 repo test (vs. 1.1 for hg, 0.35 for git). ( cf. http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/migration/en/why-switch-to-b... )

The http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/ site, sportingly linked to from the top of the page above, also has some comparative numbers (must click headers to show), but I don't see version numbers of the programs tested ...