SVN performance after many revisions

Question

My project is currently using a svn repository which gains several hundred new revisions per day. The repository resides on a Win2k3-server and is served through Apache/mod_

Answer 1

Subversion stores the most current version as full text, with backward-looking diffs. This means that updates to head are always fast, and what you incrementally pay for is looking farther and farther back in history.