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 -e

umask 027
mkdir test1
cd test1

hg init
touch a b
hg add a b
hg ci -m "added a b" -d "0 0"

cd ..
mkdir test2
cd test2

hg init
hg pull ../test1
hg co
chmod +x a
hg ci -m "chmod +x a" -d "0 0"

cd ../test1
echo 123 >>a
hg ci -m "a updated" -d "0 0"

hg pull ../test2
hg heads
hg history

hg -v co -m

ls -l ../test[12]/a > foo
cut -b 0-10 < foo