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rhg: parallellize computation of [unsure_is_modified]

[unsure_is_modified] is called for every file for which we can't
determine its status based on its size and mtime alone.

In particular, this happens if the mtime of the file changes
without its contents changing.

Parallellizing this improves performance significantly when
we have many of these files.

Here's an example run (on a repo with ~400k files after dropping FS caches)

```
before:
real	0m53.901s
user	0m27.806s
sys	0m31.325s

after:
real	0m32.017s
user	0m34.277s
sys	1m26.250s
```

Another example run (a different FS):

```
before:
real	3m28.479s
user	0m31.800s
sys	0m25.324s

after:
real	0m29.751s
user	0m41.814s
sys	1m15.387s
```

Mercurial
=========

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 https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.

Notes for packagers
===================

Mercurial ships a copy of the python-zstandard sources. This is used to
provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
module is not intended to be replaced by the plain python-zstandard nor
is it intended to use a system zstd library. Patches can result in hard
to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.