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
Set vars:
$ CONTRIBDIR="$TESTDIR/../contrib"
Test simplemerge command:
$ cp "$CONTRIBDIR/simplemerge" .
$ echo base > base
$ echo local > local
$ cat base >> local
$ cp local orig
$ cat base > other
$ echo other >> other
changing local directly
$ "$PYTHON" simplemerge local base other && echo "merge succeeded"
merge succeeded
$ cat local
local
base
other
$ cp orig local
printing to stdout
$ "$PYTHON" simplemerge -p local base other
local
base
other
local:
$ cat local
local
base
conflicts
$ cp base conflict-local
$ cp other conflict-other
$ echo not other >> conflict-local
$ echo end >> conflict-local
$ echo end >> conflict-other
$ "$PYTHON" simplemerge -p conflict-local base conflict-other
base
<<<<<<< conflict-local
not other
=======
other
>>>>>>> conflict-other
end
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1 label
$ "$PYTHON" simplemerge -p -L foo conflict-local base conflict-other
base
<<<<<<< foo
not other
=======
other
>>>>>>> conflict-other
end
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2 labels
$ "$PYTHON" simplemerge -p -L foo -L bar conflict-local base conflict-other
base
<<<<<<< foo
not other
=======
other
>>>>>>> bar
end
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3 labels
$ "$PYTHON" simplemerge -p -L foo -L bar -L base conflict-local base conflict-other
base
<<<<<<< foo
not other
end
||||||| base
=======
other
end
>>>>>>> bar
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too many labels
$ "$PYTHON" simplemerge -p -L foo -L bar -L baz -L buz conflict-local base conflict-other
abort: can only specify three labels.
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binary file
$ "$PYTHON" -c "f = open('binary-local', 'w'); f.write('\x00'); f.close()"
$ cat orig >> binary-local
$ "$PYTHON" simplemerge -p binary-local base other
warning: binary-local looks like a binary file.
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binary file --text
$ "$PYTHON" simplemerge -a -p binary-local base other 2>&1
warning: binary-local looks like a binary file.
\x00local (esc)
base
other
help
$ "$PYTHON" simplemerge --help
simplemerge [OPTS] LOCAL BASE OTHER
Simple three-way file merge utility with a minimal feature set.
Apply to LOCAL the changes necessary to go from BASE to OTHER.
By default, LOCAL is overwritten with the results of this operation.
options:
-L --label labels to use on conflict markers
-a --text treat all files as text
-p --print print results instead of overwriting LOCAL
--no-minimal no effect (DEPRECATED)
-h --help display help and exit
-q --quiet suppress output
wrong number of arguments
$ "$PYTHON" simplemerge
simplemerge: wrong number of arguments
simplemerge [OPTS] LOCAL BASE OTHER
Simple three-way file merge utility with a minimal feature set.
Apply to LOCAL the changes necessary to go from BASE to OTHER.
By default, LOCAL is overwritten with the results of this operation.
options:
-L --label labels to use on conflict markers
-a --text treat all files as text
-p --print print results instead of overwriting LOCAL
--no-minimal no effect (DEPRECATED)
-h --help display help and exit
-q --quiet suppress output
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bad option
$ "$PYTHON" simplemerge --foo -p local base other
simplemerge: option --foo not recognized
simplemerge [OPTS] LOCAL BASE OTHER
Simple three-way file merge utility with a minimal feature set.
Apply to LOCAL the changes necessary to go from BASE to OTHER.
By default, LOCAL is overwritten with the results of this operation.
options:
-L --label labels to use on conflict markers
-a --text treat all files as text
-p --print print results instead of overwriting LOCAL
--no-minimal no effect (DEPRECATED)
-h --help display help and exit
-q --quiet suppress output
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