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bdiff: write a native version of splitnewlines

./hg perfunidiff mercurial/manifest.py 0 --count 500 --profile before:
! wall 0.309280 comb 0.350000 user 0.290000 sys 0.060000 (best of 32)

./hg perfunidiff mercurial/manifest.py 0 --count 500 --profile after:
! wall 0.241572 comb 0.260000 user 0.240000 sys 0.020000 (best of 39)

so it's about 20% faster. I hate Python. I wish we could usefully
write this in Rust, but it doesn't look like that's realistic without
using the cpython crate, which I'd still like to avoid.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D1973

Mercurial's documentation is kept in reStructuredText format, which is
a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

It's also convertible to a variety of other formats including standard
UNIX man page format and HTML. You'll need to install Docutils:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/

Use the Makefile in this directory to generate the man and HTML pages.