> On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Matt Fowles wrote: > > > > > On 2/17/06, Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > $ time wget http://cvs.perl.org/snapshots/parrot/parrot-latest.tar.gz > > > real 0m16.84s > > > $ time svn co http://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk parrot-trunk > > > real 2:01:50.3 > > > > > > It's something specific to svn. No, I don't know what.
Do you, perchance, sit behind an http proxy server? Try: time svn co https://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk parrot-trunk
