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parsers: use base-16 trie for faster node->rev mapping

This greatly speeds up node->rev lookups, with results that are
often user-perceptible: for instance, "hg --time log" of the node
associated with rev 1000 on a linux-2.6 repo improves from 0.3
seconds to 0.03.  I have not found any instances of slowdowns.

The new perfnodelookup command in contrib/perf.py demonstrates the
speedup more dramatically, since it performs no I/O.  For a single
lookup, the new code is about 40x faster.

These changes also prepare the ground for the possibility of further
improving the performance of prefix-based node lookups.

Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install:

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing:

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See http://mercurial.selenic.com/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.