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> You're not really disputing what I said: Mercurial is much, much slower than Git.

Yes, I am. And I gave a reference for it.

> Facebook forked it and managed to make it faster but they never released their fork so nobody can actually use it.

I invite you to look up the license that Mercurial is released under. And then I advise you read [3]. And why do you keep making these unsubstantiated claims?

> The bottom line is that a program written in C will always be orders of magnitude faster than a program written in Python. This is not news.

If we're comparing exactly the same algorithms implemented in both Python and C, C would usually be faster. But we are not discussing the implementation of simple algorithms. We are talking about complex software, with different architectures.

[3] https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc...




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