py3: use bytes stdout in test-check-help.t Setting stdout to binary seemed to have no effect on Windows, as it was appending a literal '\r' to each topic keyword. This also stops prepending 'b' to the topic on all platforms as well.

commandserver: preload repository in master server and reuse its file cache This greatly speeds up repository operation with lots of obsolete markers: $ ls -lh .hg/store/obsstore -rw-r--r-- 1 yuya yuya 21M Dec 2 17:55 .hg/store/obsstore $ time hg log -G -l10 --pager no (hg) 1.79s user 0.13s system 99% cpu 1.919 total (chg uncached) 0.00s user 0.01s system 0% cpu 1.328 total (chg cached) 0.00s user 0.00s system 3% cpu 0.180 total As you can see, the implementation of the preloader function is highly experimental. It works, but I'm yet to be sure how things can be organized. So I don't want to formalize the API at this point.