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branchmap: Save changectx creation during update

The newly introduced `branchmap` function allows us to skip the
creation of changectx objects. This speeds up the construction of
the branchmap.

On the mozilla repository (117293 changesets, 15490 mutable)

Before:
  ! impactable 19.9
  ! mutable 0.576
  ! unserved 3.16

After:
  ! impactable 7.03 (2.8x faster)
  ! mutable 0.352 (1.6x)
  ! unserved 1.15 (2.7x)

On the cpython repository (81418 changesets, 6418 mutable)

Before:
  ! impactable 15.9
  ! mutable 0.451
  ! unserved 0.861

After:
  ! impactable 6.55 (2.4x faster)
  ! mutable 0.170 (2.6x faster)
  ! unserved 0.289 (2.9x faster)

On the pypy repository (58852 changesets)

Before:
  ! impactable 13.6

After:
  ! impactable 6.17 (2.2x faster)

On my Mercurial repository (18295 changesets, 2210 mutable)

Before:
  ! impactable 23.9
  ! mutable 0.368
  ! unserved 0.057

After:
  ! impactable 1.31 (18x faster)
  ! mutable 0.042 (8.7x)
  ! unserved 0.025 (2.2x)

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.