Why updating of dependencies in composer is so slow?

Question

I am using composer (http://getcomposer.org/) to manage installed bundles in the Symfony2 (symfony v 2.1.3). Version of the composer is de3188c.

Answer 1

In my case, the above suggestions didn't make a difference. What did was to use the HTTPS protocol for packagist:

php composer.phar config --global repo.packagist composer https://packagist.org

or

composer config --global repo.packagist composer https://packagist.org

depending on your setup