I just found this video, it’s Linus presentation on git. It’s more a “why you should choose DSCM and more specifically git” with a high dose of Linus ego. But apart from that he point one important thing that most of the times gets on a secondary place on almost all the projects, PERFORMANCE.

The idea that got my attention was, “If you can do something really fast, really well, people start using it different” (50:30). And he is right and how many times in the history of computers did we saw this happening ? a lot! a few that got to my mine now,

• Desktop search, who ever used the default windows search feature ? I think no one, people used to have the stuff on his desktop organized so they could find things quick, till Google Desktop appeared or they changed to MAC OS X and stated using Spotlight, or Beagle in Linux.
• Internet the most common example…
• and many others