store: implement fncache basic path encoding in C
(This is not yet enabled; it will be turned on in a followup patch.)
The path encoding performed by fncache is complex and (perhaps
surprisingly) slow enough to negatively affect the overall performance
of Mercurial.
For a short path (< 120 bytes), the Python code can be reduced to a fairly
tractable state machine that either determines that nothing needs to be
done in a single pass, or performs the encoding in a second pass.
For longer paths, we avoid the more complicated hashed encoding scheme
for now, and fall back to Python.
Raw performance: I measured in a repo containing 150,000 files in its tip
manifest, with a median path name length of 57 bytes, and 95th percentile
of 96 bytes.
In this repo, the Python code takes 3.1 seconds to encode all path
names, while the hybrid C-and-Python code (called from Python) takes
0.21 seconds, for a speedup of about 14.
Across several other large repositories, I've measured the speedup from
the C code at between 26x and 40x.
For path names above 120 bytes where we must fall back to Python for
hashed encoding, the speedup is about 1.7x. Thus absolute performance
will depend strongly on the characteristics of a particular repository.
$ hg init
$ echo foo > a
$ echo foo > b
$ hg add a b
$ hg ci -m "test"
$ echo blah > a
$ hg ci -m "branch a"
$ hg co 0
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo blah > b
$ hg ci -m "branch b"
created new head
$ HGMERGE=true hg merge 1
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
$ hg ci -m "merge b/a -> blah"
$ hg co 1
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ HGMERGE=true hg merge 2
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
$ hg ci -m "merge a/b -> blah"
created new head
$ hg log
changeset: 4:2ee31f665a86
tag: tip
parent: 1:96155394af80
parent: 2:92cc4c306b19
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: merge a/b -> blah
changeset: 3:e16a66a37edd
parent: 2:92cc4c306b19
parent: 1:96155394af80
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: merge b/a -> blah
changeset: 2:92cc4c306b19
parent: 0:5e0375449e74
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: branch b
changeset: 1:96155394af80
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: branch a
changeset: 0:5e0375449e74
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: test
$ hg debugindex --changelog
rev offset length ..... linkrev nodeid p1 p2 (re)
0 0 60 ..... 0 5e0375449e74 000000000000 000000000000 (re)
1 60 62 ..... 1 96155394af80 5e0375449e74 000000000000 (re)
2 122 62 ..... 2 92cc4c306b19 5e0375449e74 000000000000 (re)
3 184 69 ..... 3 e16a66a37edd 92cc4c306b19 96155394af80 (re)
4 253 29 ..... 4 2ee31f665a86 96155394af80 92cc4c306b19 (re)
revision 1
$ hg manifest --debug 1
79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644 a
2ed2a3912a0b24502043eae84ee4b279c18b90dd 644 b
revision 2
$ hg manifest --debug 2
2ed2a3912a0b24502043eae84ee4b279c18b90dd 644 a
79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644 b
revision 3
$ hg manifest --debug 3
79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644 a
79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644 b
revision 4
$ hg manifest --debug 4
79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644 a
79d7492df40aa0fa093ec4209be78043c181f094 644 b
$ hg debugindex a
rev offset length ..... linkrev nodeid p1 p2 (re)
0 0 5 ..... 0 2ed2a3912a0b 000000000000 000000000000 (re)
1 5 6 ..... 1 79d7492df40a 2ed2a3912a0b 000000000000 (re)
$ hg verify
checking changesets
checking manifests
crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
checking files
2 files, 5 changesets, 4 total revisions