Comment by Arainach

Small reviews allow moving faster for both the author and reviewer.

A chain of commits:

* Does not go out for review until the author has written all of them

* Cannot be submitted even in partial form until the reviewer has read all of them

Reviewing a chain of commits, as the reviewer I have to review them all. For 10 commits, this means setting aside an hour or whatever - something I will put off until there's a gap in my schedule.

For stacked commits, they can go out for review when each commit is ready. I can review a small CL very quick and will generally do so almost as soon as I get the notification. The author is immediately unblocked. Any feedback I have can be addressed immediately before the author keeps building on top of it.