[brachi]

> Only slightly slower than Git

That's interesting. In your examples isn't it fast because monorepos are network-based, as in, you only fetch what you need when you need it?

Also reminded me of discussions around CPython's startup time and how one use case where milliseconds matter is in small cli utilities such as Mercurial.

[kccqzy]

What I mean is daily operations on the repo like viewing a diff, committing, amending, checking out a different commit, etc. Without doing precise measurements, I would tend to think that it's mostly caused by the slowness of CPython, as compared to a C executable (Git).

The entire repo is stored on a networked file system. So essentially every file operation is remote. That doesn't actually contribute to much slowness because when I didn't use hg, operations were noticeably faster.