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 "added file1" > file1
$ echo "added file2" > file2
$ hg add file1 file2
$ hg commit -m "added file1 and file2"
$ echo "changed file1" >> file1
$ hg commit -m "changed file1"
$ hg -q log
1:08a16e8e4408
0:d29c767a4b52
$ hg id
08a16e8e4408 tip
$ hg update -C 0
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg id
d29c767a4b52
$ echo "changed file1" >> file1
$ hg id
d29c767a4b52+
$ hg revert --all
reverting file1
$ hg diff
$ hg status
? file1.orig
$ hg id
d29c767a4b52
$ hg update
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg diff
$ hg status
? file1.orig
$ hg id
08a16e8e4408 tip
$ hg update -C 0
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo "changed file1" >> file1
$ hg update
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg diff
$ hg status
? file1.orig
$ hg id
08a16e8e4408 tip
$ hg revert --all
$ hg diff
$ hg status
? file1.orig
$ hg id
08a16e8e4408 tip
$ hg revert -r tip --all
$ hg diff
$ hg status
? file1.orig
$ hg id
08a16e8e4408 tip
$ hg update -C
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg diff
$ hg status
? file1.orig
$ hg id
08a16e8e4408 tip