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merge: apply non-interactive working dir updates in parallel

This has a big effect on the performance of working dir updates.

Here are the results of update from null to the given rev in several
repos, on a Linux 3.2 system with 32 cores running ext4, with the progress
extension enabled.

repo             rev           plain  parallel   speedup
hg               7068089c95a2    0.9       0.3       3
mozilla-central  fe1600b22c77   42.8       7.7       5.5
linux-2.6        9ef4b770e069   31.4       4.9       6.4

Mercurial
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Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install:

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing:

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See http://mercurial.selenic.com/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.