In writing my last article, I mentioned working with John Arbash Meinel, one of the lead developers of Bazaar, in attempting to diagnose and fix the performance bottlenecks apparent in using Bazaar with larger, history-rich projects like the MySQL Server. Well, after running some tests and building a custom branch of Bazaar that John pointed me to, I am happy to tell you that help is just around the corner. In my last article, you saw that doing a bzr branch lp:mysql-server took 91 minutes. This was a significant barrier to entry, I recognize. So, I think you’ll be happy to see the results below, taken yesterday using John’s patched-up Bazaar branch:

[529][jpipes@serialcoder: /home/jpipes/repos/mysql-server/5.1]$ time test_bzr branch lp:mysql-server/5.1 trunk
Branched 2677 revision(s).

real	23m25.094s
user	3m53.715s
sys	0m7.788s

Great work, John! MySQL contributors and engineers, you should see these performance patches appear in Bazaar 1.6 (1.6.1rc?) shortly. That should make a bunch of folks happier. Right, Mark? 🙂