<hr /><i>anonymous claiming to be Joerg Sonnenberger added on 2010-12-21 14:04:19:</i><br />
With [d16ccde510] and a fresh trace of pkgsrc, fossil clone http://localhost:8080 now takes:

<verbatim>
real	5m41.922s
user	1m52.690s
sys	0m15.750s
</verbatim>

...until the rebuild starts. IO delays can be neglected and this is completely dominated by insufficient asynchronous processing between client and server. This time is not masked by network speed either.