Note that checking out from git via http:// is at least 4x slower than git://

Tested on a 10 MiB/s connection in London, although this is also
IO/CPU bound since Git needs to resolve deltas and check out after the
repository has made it across the wire.

diff --git a/pod/perlrepository.pod b/pod/perlrepository.pod
index 2e7c314..36d918f 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlrepository.pod
+++ b/pod/perlrepository.pod
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ This clones the repository and makes a local copy in the F<perl-git>
 directory.
 
 If your local network does not allow you to use port 9418, then you can
-fetch a copy of the repository over HTTP (this is slower):
+fetch a copy of the repository over HTTP (this is at least 4x slower):
 
   git clone http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git perl-http