tests/test-known.t

cborutil: change buffering strategy

Profiling revealed that we were spending a lot of time on the
line that was concatenating the old buffer with the incoming data
when attempting to decode long byte strings, such as manifest
revisions.

Essentially, we were feeding N chunks of size len(X) << len(Y) into
decode() and continuously allocating a new, larger buffer to hold
the undecoded input. This created substantial memory churn and
slowed down execution.

Changing the code to aggregate pending chunks in a list until we
have enough data to fully decode the next atom makes things much
more efficient.

I don't have exact data, but I recall the old code spending >1s
on manifest fulltexts from the mozilla-unified repo. The new code
doesn't significantly appear in profile output.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4854

= Test the known() protocol function =

Create a test repository:

  $ hg init repo
  $ cd repo
  $ touch a ; hg add a ; hg ci -ma
  $ touch b ; hg add b ; hg ci -mb
  $ touch c ; hg add c ; hg ci -mc
  $ hg log --template '{node}\n'
  991a3460af53952d10ec8a295d3d2cc2e5fa9690
  0e067c57feba1a5694ca4844f05588bb1bf82342
  3903775176ed42b1458a6281db4a0ccf4d9f287a
  $ cd ..

Test locally:

  $ hg debugknown repo 991a3460af53952d10ec8a295d3d2cc2e5fa9690 0e067c57feba1a5694ca4844f05588bb1bf82342 3903775176ed42b1458a6281db4a0ccf4d9f287a
  111
  $ hg debugknown repo 000a3460af53952d10ec8a295d3d2cc2e5fa9690 0e067c57feba1a5694ca4844f05588bb1bf82342 0003775176ed42b1458a6281db4a0ccf4d9f287a
  010
  $ hg debugknown repo
  

Test via HTTP:

  $ hg serve -R repo -p $HGPORT -d --pid-file=hg.pid -E error.log -A access.log
  $ cat hg.pid >> $DAEMON_PIDS
  $ hg debugknown http://localhost:$HGPORT/ 991a3460af53952d10ec8a295d3d2cc2e5fa9690 0e067c57feba1a5694ca4844f05588bb1bf82342 3903775176ed42b1458a6281db4a0ccf4d9f287a
  111
  $ hg debugknown http://localhost:$HGPORT/ 000a3460af53952d10ec8a295d3d2cc2e5fa9690 0e067c57feba1a5694ca4844f05588bb1bf82342 0003775176ed42b1458a6281db4a0ccf4d9f287a
  010
  $ hg debugknown http://localhost:$HGPORT/
  
  $ cat error.log
  $ killdaemons.py