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.
$ hgcommit() {
> hg commit -u user "$@"
> }
$ hg init clhead
$ cd clhead
$ touch foo && hg add && hgcommit -m 'foo'
adding foo
$ touch bar && hg add && hgcommit -m 'bar'
adding bar
$ touch baz && hg add && hgcommit -m 'baz'
adding baz
$ echo "flub" > foo
$ hgcommit -m "flub"
$ echo "nub" > foo
$ hgcommit -m "nub"
$ hg up -C 2
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo "c1" > c1
$ hg add c1
$ hgcommit -m "c1"
created new head
$ echo "c2" > c1
$ hgcommit -m "c2"
$ hg up -C 2
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo "d1" > d1
$ hg add d1
$ hgcommit -m "d1"
created new head
$ echo "d2" > d1
$ hgcommit -m "d2"
$ hg tag -l good
fail with three heads
$ hg up -C good
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg merge
abort: branch 'default' has 3 heads - please merge with an explicit rev
(run 'hg heads .' to see heads)
[255]
close one of the heads
$ hg up -C 6
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hgcommit -m 'close this head' --close-branch
succeed with two open heads
$ hg up -C good
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg up -C good
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg merge
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
$ hgcommit -m 'merged heads'
hg update -C 8
$ hg update -C 8
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
hg branch some-branch
$ hg branch some-branch
marked working directory as branch some-branch
(branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?)
hg commit
$ hgcommit -m 'started some-branch'
hg commit --close-branch
$ hgcommit --close-branch -m 'closed some-branch'
hg update default
$ hg update default
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
hg merge some-branch
$ hg merge some-branch
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
hg commit (no reopening of some-branch)
$ hgcommit -m 'merge with closed branch'
$ cd ..