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.
$ for i in aaa zzz; do
> hg init t
> cd t
>
> echo
> echo "-- With $i"
>
> touch file
> hg add file
> hg ci -m "Add"
>
> hg cp file $i
> hg ci -m "a -> $i"
>
> hg cp $i other-file
> echo "different" >> $i
> hg ci -m "$i -> other-file"
>
> hg cp other-file somename
>
> echo "Status":
> hg st -C
> echo
> echo "Diff:"
> hg diff -g
>
> cd ..
> rm -rf t
> done
-- With aaa
Status:
A somename
other-file
Diff:
diff --git a/other-file b/somename
copy from other-file
copy to somename
-- With zzz
Status:
A somename
other-file
Diff:
diff --git a/other-file b/somename
copy from other-file
copy to somename