Thrashing [was: Surely 'bzr branch' shouldn't be this slow?]

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Lennart Borgman writes:

 > Is it the design or the algorithm that are the problem?

Neither.  It's Intel advertising that makes people think that GHz are
as useful as GB.  If you have a choice to make between buying more GHz
and buying more GB, as a rule of thumb you won't go wrong by taking
the latter.