This is on-topic for dev@. We're aware of speed issues, but we'll always appreciate more input.
Daniel (good to see more people building svn.exe on Windows...) Gunnar Dalsnes wrote on Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 21:34:41 +0100: > Hi, > > My WC have 1881dirs and 12693 files, and I am experiencing extreme > slowness in some situations: > 'svn propget svn:dummyprop -R' in WC root take 70seconds! In svn 1.6 > it take 2 seconds. > In WC's with around 200dirs, it's only take a few seconds in svn 1.7 too. > > Discovered the problem while testing TortoiseSVN, where > svn_wc_revision_status2 took 70seconds on WC root. > > Seems svn_wc__node_walk_children/walker_helper is slow. Does not > seem to scale linear. > > Strangely, 'svn stat -v > nul' in WC root only take 2 seconds, and > it is also recursive and traverse all nodes in WC, so there seem to > be several implementations of walking nodes in wc.db, where one is > fast. > > Gunnar Dalsnes