internals: document CBOR utilization
I spoke with some people at Mozilla about CBOR and they advised me
that we should be careful about the subset of CBOR we use in order
to mitigate security, performance, and compatibility concerns.
This commit establishes a document that attempts to formalize our
use of CBOR.
Its main limitations are on what types are allowed. It explicitly
enumerates which types are supported. Notable missing features
include:
* Indefinite-length arrays and maps
* Text strings (bytes all the way)
* Floats
* Date/time types
* Big integers
* Use of indefinite-length byte strings for map keys, values in
containers.
If we have a need for any of these, we can have a discussion about
them when the time comes.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4412
=== property cache ===
calllog: []
cached value (unfiltered): NOCACHE
= first access on unfiltered, should do a call
access: 0
calllog: [0]
cached value (unfiltered): 0
= second access on unfiltered, should not do call
access 0
calllog: [0]
cached value (unfiltered): 0
= first access on "visible" view, should do a call
cached value ("visible" view): NOCACHE
access: 7
calllog: [0, 7]
cached value (unfiltered): 0
cached value ("visible" view): 7
= second access on "visible view", should not do call
access: 7
calllog: [0, 7]
cached value (unfiltered): 0
cached value ("visible" view): 7
= no effect on other view
cached value ("immutable" view): NOCACHE
access: 9
calllog: [0, 7, 9]
cached value (unfiltered): 0
cached value ("visible" view): 7
cached value ("immutable" view): 9
=== unfiltered property cache ===
unficalllog: []
cached value (unfiltered): NOCACHE
cached value ("visible" view): NOCACHE
cached value ("immutable" view): NOCACHE
= first access on unfiltered, should do a call
access (unfiltered): 100
unficalllog: [100]
cached value (unfiltered): 100
= second access on unfiltered, should not do call
access (unfiltered): 100
unficalllog: [100]
cached value (unfiltered): 100
= access on view should use the unfiltered cache
access (unfiltered): 100
access ("visible" view): 100
access ("immutable" view): 100
unficalllog: [100]
cached value (unfiltered): 100
cached value ("visible" view): NOCACHE
cached value ("immutable" view): NOCACHE
= even if we clear the unfiltered cache
cached value (unfiltered): NOCACHE
cached value ("visible" view): NOCACHE
cached value ("immutable" view): NOCACHE
unficalllog: [100]
access ("visible" view): 100
unficalllog: [100, 100]
cached value (unfiltered): 100
cached value ("visible" view): NOCACHE
cached value ("immutable" view): NOCACHE
access ("immutable" view): 100
unficalllog: [100, 100]
cached value (unfiltered): 100
cached value ("visible" view): NOCACHE
cached value ("immutable" view): NOCACHE
access (unfiltered): 100
unficalllog: [100, 100]
cached value (unfiltered): 100
cached value ("visible" view): NOCACHE
cached value ("immutable" view): NOCACHE