Hi, I'm not sure if much performance comparison has been performed, but I'm unhappy to report a significant _reduction_ in speed in a checkout.
Subversion 1.7 (r1078338) client, checking out from localhost HTTP server (Subversion 1.7 r1078338): Checkout a tree with 3740 files, 121 directories, totalling 29MiB real 0m25.552s user 0m5.777s sys 0m8.099s Subversion 1.6.15 (r1038135) client, checking out from the same server: Same checkout: real 0m8.350s user 0m2.382s sys 0m2.485s John. -- John Beranek To generalise is to be an idiot. http://redux.org.uk/ -- William Blake