On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

(*) Actually, I think it's the compression that ends up being the most
expensive part.

You're also using the equivalent of '-9', too -- and *that's slow*.
Changing to Z_NORMAL_COMPRESSION would probably help a lot
(but would break all existing repositories, sigh).
  --scott

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