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
$ "$TESTDIR/hghave" unix-permissions || exit 80
$ hg init a
$ cd a
$ echo foo > b
$ hg add b
$ hg ci -m "b"
$ chmod -w .hg/store
$ cd ..
$ hg clone a b
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files
updating to branch default
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ chmod +w a/.hg/store # let test clean up
$ cd b
$ hg verify
checking changesets
checking manifests
crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
checking files
1 files, 1 changesets, 1 total revisions
$ cd ..