[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkkyBDsfOB7JZvPZ4a8F3rwv0wk6Nb9n48"
 nickname="Abdó"
 subject="comment 2"
 date="2013-07-17T20:45:17Z"
 content="""
That example I gave: 10 sec vs 1 sec is on a repository of pictures with about 6200 files on a SSD.

Oh, I think I understand the source of the asymmetry, now! So, `git annex copy --to` queries the location log file by file? I've tested a `git grep` on the git-annex branch as follows

```
git grep -e <repo uuid> git-annex
```

and seems to be quite fast, less than a second on my test repo. Could git annex make use of this to speed up bulk queries to the location log?

"""]]
