wanted -- a faster RCS

[Joe Berkovitz]

RCS version 4.2 (from GNU) is quite, quite slow when processing upwards
of 20 revisions or so.  It seems
that this is due to the way deltas are processed: RCS shuffles the
entire text of the file back and
forth between temporary input and output files whenever a delta is
encountered at a point
BEFORE the last delta that was seen.  It tries to always be poking
through the file in a forward
direction.

Has anyone attempted to improve its performance in this area?  Please
contact me if you have!
If nothing turns up, I'll undertake to improve it myself and post the
results...

Thanks,
	Joe Berkovitz    (jberk at pretzel.sw.stratus.com
			  --or--
			  uunet!lectroid!pretzel!jberk)