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
echo a > a
hg add a
hg commit -m "1" -d "0 0"
hg status
hg copy a b
hg status
hg --debug commit -m "2" -d "0 0"
echo "we should see two history entries"
hg history -v
echo "we should see one log entry for a"
hg log a
echo "this should show a revision linked to changeset 0"
hg debugindex .hg/data/a.i
echo "we should see one log entry for b"
hg log b
echo "this should show a revision linked to changeset 1"
hg debugindex .hg/data/b.i

echo "this should show the rename information in the metadata"
hg debugdata .hg/data/b.d 0 | head -n 3 | tail -n 2

md5sum .hg/data/b.d
hg cat b > bsum
md5sum bsum
hg cat a > asum
md5sum asum
hg verify