[issue3364] large repo: update from empty working dir is slowish

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

New submission from Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>:

Repo with 120,000 files, in the tip revision, ext4 on a single drive, 
data=writeback:

git checkout master: 46 secs best, with results clustered tightly 
hg update default: 96 secs best, more often 100-115 secs

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messages: 19568
nosy: bos
priority: bug
status: unread
title: large repo: update from empty working dir is slowish

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