> John did do some measurement of file system times via the trace device > we wrote. I think it's fair to say that the IO path for fossil is > considerably slower than the IO path for kernel-based file systems in > Linux: slower as in multiples of 10, not multiples. There's a fair > amount of copying, allocation, and bouncing in and out of the kernel, > and this activity does not come cheap.
that is, the pool library must die. - erik
