repository creation

[Bill Nottingham]

seth vidal (skvidal at phy.duke.edu) said: 
> > What is the amount of time/memory/etc used during reading of this
> > extraneous data?
> 
> well you're almost doubling the amount of data to read in/sort through.
> 
> from what I've seen it goes pretty linearly with the number of nodes.
> 
> So figure something like a 1/3rd or half as much time to iterate over
> the nodes.

But how much is this time related to the other time in processing/dep
resolution/etc. I mean, if it ends up shaving only .1 seconds...

Bill