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by swisspol 4027 days ago
It actually is performance sensitive: just see the folks on this thread complaining about how show SourceTree has become.

Another example: if I do something in terminal, I don't wanna have to wait 5s for the Git client UI to refresh.

All these little half a second here, a few hundred ms here, add up, especially when you're trying to deal with thousands of commits.