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

mkdir t
cd t
hg init
hg id
echo a > a
hg add a
hg commit -m "test" -d "0 0"
hg co
hg identify
T=`hg tip -v | head -n 1 | cut -d : -f 3`
echo "$T first" > .hgtags
cat .hgtags
hg add .hgtags
hg commit -m "add tags" -d "0 0"
hg tags
hg identify
echo bb > a
hg status
hg identify
hg co first
hg id
hg -v id
hg status
echo 1 > b
hg add b
hg commit -m "branch" -d "0 0"
hg id
hg co -m 1
hg id
hg status