Sounder, no. The theoretical complexity of Anu is improved compared to Pijul. The complexity of Pijul is in O(log l) where l is the number of lines written since the beginning of history, whereas Anu is in O(e) where e is the number of edits. Since each edit has at least one line, this is always better, and Anu can in fact handle large repositories (Linux kernel, Nixpkgs), that Pijul couldln't handle.
My understanding was that darcs fixed the model but had fundamental performance problems at _some scale_. I think pijul took the same concepts and tried to streamline them. And this rewrite does that...again?