perf: add threading capability to perfbdiff
Since we are releasing the GIL during diffing, it is interesting to see how a
thread pool would perform on diffing. We add a new `--threads` argument to
commands. Synchronizing the thread pool is a bit complex because we want to be
able to reuse it from one run to another.
On my computer (i7 with 4 cores + hyperthreading), I get the following data for
about 12000 revisions:
threads wall comb wall gain comb overhead
none 31.596715 31.59 0.00% 0.00%
1 31.621228 31.62 -0.08% 0.09%
2 16.406202 32.8 48.08% 3.83%
3 11.598334 34.76 63.29% 10.03%
4 9.205421 36.77 70.87% 16.40%
5 8.517604 42.51 73.04% 34.57%
6 7.94645 47.58 74.85% 50.62%
7 7.434972 51.92 76.47% 64.36%
8 7.070638 55.34 77.62% 75.18%
Compared to the feature disabled (threads=0), the overhead is negligible with
the threading code (threads=1), and the gain is already 48% with two threads.
$ hg init
$ echo a > a
$ hg ci -Am t
adding a
$ hg mv a b
$ hg ci -Am t1
$ hg debugrename b
b renamed from a:b789fdd96dc2f3bd229c1dd8eedf0fc60e2b68e3
$ hg mv b a
$ hg ci -Am t2
$ hg debugrename a
a renamed from b:37d9b5d994eab34eda9c16b195ace52c7b129980
$ hg debugrename --rev 1 b
b renamed from a:b789fdd96dc2f3bd229c1dd8eedf0fc60e2b68e3