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Subject: Re: newbie questions about git design and features (some wrt hg)
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On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Mike Coleman wrote:

> As for performance, my thinking was that since hg is implemented
> apparently almost entirely in Python, and has (again apparently)
> generally acceptable performance, this suggested that much of the
> problem might be I/O-bound enough that language efficiency might not
> matter so much.

Matt Mackall said himself that some core portion of hg have been 
rewritten in C in order to improve performances.


Nicolas