So it turns out the horrible checkout numbers for bzr were somewhat bogus; I

apparently have a connection to Launchpad worse than a 56K modem. Using my much
better connection to code.python.org I did the simple case for bzr and recorded
only that number.

pep-0374.txt

@@ -1377,20 +1377,14 @@ space was calculated with ``du -c -h``.
 DVCS	Time	         Space	
 ------- ---------------- --------------
 svn	   1:04          139 M
-bzr 1	2:29:24  	 275 M
-bzr 2      8:46          596 M
+bzr       10:45          276 M
 hg	   2:30	         171 M	
 git	   2:54	         134 M	
 ======= ================ ==============
 
 .. note::
-    The *bzr 1* entry is for
-    following the instructions in the `One-Off Checkout`_ scenario
-    instructions pulling from Launchpad_ in mid-January.
-    The *bzr 2* entry is based on following the instructions
-    for the `experimental Bazaar branches
-    <http://www.python.org/dev/bazaar/>`_ and pulling from
-    http://code.python.org/python/trunk/.
+    The version of bzr running on code.python.org is 1.5. Changes were
+    made in bzr 1.9 that should bring down the reported numbers.
 
 When comparing these numbers to svn, it is important to realize that
 it is not a 1:1 comparison. Svn does not pull down the entire revision