darcs performance

[Sven Panne]

On Monday 02 April 2007 10:07, Simon Marlow wrote:
> Since we're all demonstrating our local darcs hacks, here's mine: I use
> HTTP for get/pull, and I have a script (attached) that grovels in
> _darcs/prefs/repos to find the right place to push to and then pushes over
> SSH.

So what I seem to read from the various mails is that people basically abandon 
using darcs + SSH directly due to performance reasons. :-( This is a pity, 
but I don't fully understand the technical reasons for the horrible 
performance. Does anybody have a clue?

Cheers,
   S.