Optimize manifest.add Testing shows that manifest.add is spending a significant percentage of its time running calcoffsets and doing text = "".join(addlist). This patch removes the need for both of these by storying the manifest in a character array, and using a modified bisect search to find lines without the help of a separate index of line offsets. manifest.add was also reworked to push delta construction/combination into the main loop. Time to apply 2751 patches (without psyco, ext3 noatime,data=writeback): Stock hg: 4m45s real 3m32s user 55s sys patched: 2m48s real 1m53s user 43s sys quilt: 2m30s real 45s user 50s sys (quilt does much more io...)

SOURCES=$(wildcard *.[0-9].txt)
MAN=$(SOURCES:%.txt=%)
HTML=$(SOURCES:%.txt=%.html)

all: man html

man: $(MAN)

html: $(HTML)

%: %.xml
	xmlto man $*.xml

%.xml: %.txt
	asciidoc -d manpage -b docbook $*.txt

%.html: %.txt
	asciidoc -b html4 $*.txt

clean:
	$(RM) $(MAN) $(MAN:%=%.xml) $(MAN:%=%.html)