* Various microoptimisations to knit and gzip - reducing function call counts in inner loops, reducing double-handling of data, increasing knit header parsing performance, removing 'list.index' calls completely etc. * changes the data format of knits to remove an extraneous \n in the compressed content data, which lets it be trivially pulled into memory in a single 'readlines()' call. * changes the knit repository to use unannotated knits for inventory, revisions, and signatures. Also turns off delta-compression for revisions and signatures.