GUI performance with large repos (100k changesets)

[Greg Ward]

>>   hg log           takes 65 sec (97% cpu)
>>   hg glog         takes 256 sec (99% cpu)
>
> My apologies if this question is too dumb, but it's just for the record.
> Did you dump the output to /dev/null?  Because in those particular
> cases, the CPU time must be shared with your terminal emulator so the
> elapsed time and CPU usage varies from one to another.

Yes, I did dump to /dev/null.  I'm sure it would have taken waaaaay
longer to run if the terminals and ptys and the X server and so on
were involved.

(All my GUI performance results, BTW, are from a mainstream desktop PC
[Pentium 4, 3 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 1 SATA disk] running CentOS 5 and recent
hg crew.)

Greg