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...)

#!/bin/sh

hg init test
cd test
echo foo > foo
hg add foo
hg commit -d '0 0' -m commit-1
echo foo >> foo
hg commit -d '1 4444444' -m commit-3
hg commit -d '1	15.1' -m commit-4
hg commit -d 'foo bar' -m commit-5
hg commit -d ' 1 4444' -m commit-6
hg commit -d '111111111111 0' -m commit-7

echo bar > bar
hg add bar
rm bar
hg commit -d "0 0" -m commit-8 2>&1 | sed -e "s:/.*\(/test/.*\):...\1:"
exit 0