[PATCH] Speed up manifest parsing by 4x

[Steve Borho]

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 09:47 -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> 
> >> We should probably do our own unhexing. Then we don't have to construct
> >> a separate Python string object just to then convert it to binary.
> > 
> > That will probably help performance, yes.
> 
> FWIW, it almost doubled performance, making the new manifest parser
> almost 8x as fast as the pure Python version.

Which commands does that help the most?  log, annotate?

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