beat * pull commands are extremely slow in certain cases

I'm currently implementing some tests for the cmdline utilities. I'm noticing that pulling algorithms out of the platform gets extremely slow in some circumstances. Namely, when using the tool as user tutorial, but downloading stuff from user tpereira. What is special about this? Why is it so slow? To be checked.

The same behaviour cannot be observed downloading either data formats or toolchains. I wonder if there is a problem with the algorithm -> data format dependence.