Package: mercurial Version: 4.9-1~bpo9+1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Dear Maintainer,
We are using the chg (https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/CHg) binary as an alias to hg. This allow to avoid the python startup time for mercurial client and this is a quite huge performance enhancement for commands taking less than the python startup time. For example: % time /usr/bin/hg diff /usr/bin/hg diff 0.11s user 0.02s system 97% cpu 0.140 total % time ~/bin/chg diff ~/bin/chg diff 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.040 total I sent a PR for this: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/applications/mercurial/merge_requests/2/ Thanks!
