That's also why perforce is slow as heck unless you throw massive resources at it. I also work in the chip industry BTW.

I occasionally used to start a sync, go get coffee, chat with colleagues, read and answer my morning email, browse the arxiv, and then wait a few more minutes before I could touch the repo. In retrospect, I should have setup a cron job for it all, but it wasn’t always that slow and I liked the coffee routine. We switched to git. Git is just fast. Even cloning huge repos is barely enough time for grabbing a coffee from down the hall.

I mean "massive resources" is just de rigeur across the chip industry now. The hard in hardware is really no longer about it being a physical product in the end.

I've only used Perforce for two years and it didn't feel slow at all. The company wasn't exactly throwing money at hardware.

I don't like it (but used it for many years).

I love Git, but, then, I don't have a workflow that would benefit from Perforce.