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by silentbicycle 6016 days ago
Mercurial isn't pure Python - a few hotspots (particularly diffing) are done in C. It seems to be easier to port, though. (Git has a thicker "Unix accent".)
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ErrantX 6015 days ago
I believe they provide pure alternatives to all of the C (or did anyway) so ytou can have a pure python implementation if needed.

http://selenic.com/repo/hg/file/37679dbf2ee3/mercurial/pure

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