[darcs-users] darcs goes faster if you break a repository up into successive chunks of patches?

[zooko]

Folks:

I just noticed this patch to tailor:

http://progetti.arstecnica.it/tailor/changeset/1507

"""To migrate a big darcs repository it is faster doing a *chunked  
approach*, that is using an intermediary repository where you pull  
say a couple of hundreds patches at a time from the real source  
repository ... """

Does anybody know why this is?  It sounds like an opportunity for  
darcs optimization.

Regards,

Zooko