bdiff: early pruning of common prefix before doing expensive computations
It seems quite common that files don't change completely. New lines are often
pretty much appended, and modifications will often only change a small section
of the file which on average will be in the middle.
There can thus be a big win by pruning a common prefix before starting the more
expensive search for longest common substrings.
Worst case, it will scan through a long sequence of similar bytes without
encountering a newline. Splitlines will then have to do the same again ...
twice for each side. If similar lines are found, splitlines will save the
double iteration and hashing of the lines ... plus there will be less lines to
find common substrings in.
This change might in some cases make the algorith pick shorter or less optimal
common substrings. We can't have the cake and eat it.
This make hg --time bundle --base null -r 4.0 go from 14.5 to 15 s - a 3%
increase.
On mozilla-unified:
perfbdiff -m 3041e4d59df2
! wall 0.053088 comb 0.060000 user 0.060000 sys 0.000000 (best of 100) to
! wall 0.024618 comb 0.020000 user 0.020000 sys 0.000000 (best of 116)
perfbdiff 0e9928989e9c --alldata --count 10
! wall 0.702075 comb 0.700000 user 0.700000 sys 0.000000 (best of 15) to
! wall 0.579235 comb 0.580000 user 0.580000 sys 0.000000 (best of 18)
# dirstateguard.py - class to allow restoring dirstate after failure
#
# Copyright 2005-2007 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
from __future__ import absolute_import
from .i18n import _
from . import (
error,
)
class dirstateguard(object):
'''Restore dirstate at unexpected failure.
At the construction, this class does:
- write current ``repo.dirstate`` out, and
- save ``.hg/dirstate`` into the backup file
This restores ``.hg/dirstate`` from backup file, if ``release()``
is invoked before ``close()``.
This just removes the backup file at ``close()`` before ``release()``.
'''
def __init__(self, repo, name):
self._repo = repo
self._active = False
self._closed = False
self._suffix = '.backup.%s.%d' % (name, id(self))
repo.dirstate.savebackup(repo.currenttransaction(), self._suffix)
self._active = True
def __del__(self):
if self._active: # still active
# this may occur, even if this class is used correctly:
# for example, releasing other resources like transaction
# may raise exception before ``dirstateguard.release`` in
# ``release(tr, ....)``.
self._abort()
def close(self):
if not self._active: # already inactivated
msg = (_("can't close already inactivated backup: dirstate%s")
% self._suffix)
raise error.Abort(msg)
self._repo.dirstate.clearbackup(self._repo.currenttransaction(),
self._suffix)
self._active = False
self._closed = True
def _abort(self):
self._repo.dirstate.restorebackup(self._repo.currenttransaction(),
self._suffix)
self._active = False
def release(self):
if not self._closed:
if not self._active: # already inactivated
msg = (_("can't release already inactivated backup:"
" dirstate%s")
% self._suffix)
raise error.Abort(msg)
self._abort()