haskell/HTTP — pull request #48 by nominolo (2013-12-09 17:33:17+00:00)
Title: Fix severe performance issue affecting "cabal update"

This patch improves `cabal update` performance by 10x(!) on my system. Due to this issue, `cabal update` was using an extreme amount of CPU, while it should be I/O-bound. The reverse was taking 79s, now it takes 0.01s.