tests/heredoctest.py

merge: apply non-interactive working dir updates in parallel

This has a big effect on the performance of working dir updates.

Here are the results of update from null to the given rev in several
repos, on a Linux 3.2 system with 32 cores running ext4, with the progress
extension enabled.

repo             rev           plain  parallel   speedup
hg               7068089c95a2    0.9       0.3       3
mozilla-central  fe1600b22c77   42.8       7.7       5.5
linux-2.6        9ef4b770e069   31.4       4.9       6.4

import sys

globalvars = {}
localvars = {}
lines = sys.stdin.readlines()
while lines:
    l = lines.pop(0)
    if l.startswith('SALT'):
        print l[:-1]
    elif l.startswith('>>> '):
        snippet = l[4:]
        while lines and lines[0].startswith('... '):
            l = lines.pop(0)
            snippet += "\n" + l[4:]
        c = compile(snippet, '<heredoc>', 'single')
        try:
            exec c in globalvars, localvars
        except Exception, inst:
            print repr(inst)