setup: avoid attempting to invoke the system-wide hg.exe on Windows On Windows, the executable in the current directory gets priority over anything in $PATH (both for cmd.exe and MSYS). That means, the former code was launching the local hg.exe instead of the system-wide one, if it was previously built. If that failed, it then fell back to the local hg code, but run through python.exe. I'm not sure what it is about ef7119cd4965, but that started throwing up a messagebox that python37.dll couldn't be loaded. (And indeed, python37 is not in $PATH by default.) Invoking the local hg via the current python avoids that.

delta: ignore base whose chains already don't match expectations If we know the existing chain does not match our criteria, there is no point to build a delta to append. This is especially useful when dealing with a full text much smaller than its parent. In that case, the parent chain is probably already too large. example affected manifest write before: 1.421005s after: 0.815520s (-42%)

delta: exclude base candidate much smaller than the target If a revision's full text is that much bigger than a base candidate full text, we no longer consider that candidate. This solves a pathological case we encountered on a very specify repository. It contains a long series of changesets with a very small manifest (one file) co-existing with others changesets using a very large manifest. Without this filtering, we ended up considering a large number of tiny full snapshots as a potential base. It resulted in very large delta (the size of the full text) and mercurial spending 99% of its time compressing these deltas. The timing of a commit moved from about 400s to about 10s (still slow, but not ridiculously slow).

perfrevflogwrite: clear revlog cache between each write We want to measure write time from a cold cache (similar to commit). So we need to clear the cache to prevent computation from rev N-1 to interfere with rev N.