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=hg
"$HG" init
mkdir b
echo 'Bouncy' >b/bouncy
echo 'tricycle' >b/vehicle
"$HG" add b/bouncy
"$HG" add b/vehicle
"$HG" commit -m 'Adding bouncy'
echo 'bouncy' >>b/bouncy
"$HG" commit -m 'Making it bouncier'
"$HG" update -C 0
echo 'stationary' >>b/vehicle
"$HG" commit -m 'Clarifying the vehicle.'
"$HG" update -C 1
chmod a-w b/vehicle
"$HG" update -m 2 2>&1 | sed 's|^\(.*[ 	]\)/tmp/[^/]*/\(.*\)$|\1\2|g'