I use Subversion on a daily basis, and Mercurial a few days a week. I have noticed that Mercurial seems to be faster with a lot of common operations, but I figured it wasn't a fair comparison as Mercurial was always operating locally, while Subversion has to hit the network for many (but certainly not all) operations.
So I decided to do some very rough performance comparisons on a local repository. And after some quick timings of common operations, this is what I found...
(Updated: fixed table and added graph.)
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