contrib/tmplrewrite.py

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

#!/usr/bin/python
import sys, os, re

IGNORE = ['.css', '.py']
oldre = re.compile('#([\w\|%]+)#')

def rewrite(fn):
    f = open(fn)
    new = open(fn + '.new', 'wb')
    for ln in f:
        new.write(oldre.sub('{\\1}', ln))
    new.close()
    f.close()
    os.rename(new.name, f.name)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
        print 'usage: python tmplrewrite.py [file [file [file]]]'
    for fn in sys.argv[1:]:
        if os.path.splitext(fn) in IGNORE:
            continue
        print 'rewriting %s...' % fn
        rewrite(fn)