mercurial/node.py

cborutil: change buffering strategy

Profiling revealed that we were spending a lot of time on the
line that was concatenating the old buffer with the incoming data
when attempting to decode long byte strings, such as manifest
revisions.

Essentially, we were feeding N chunks of size len(X) << len(Y) into
decode() and continuously allocating a new, larger buffer to hold
the undecoded input. This created substantial memory churn and
slowed down execution.

Changing the code to aggregate pending chunks in a list until we
have enough data to fully decode the next atom makes things much
more efficient.

I don't have exact data, but I recall the old code spending >1s
on manifest fulltexts from the mozilla-unified repo. The new code
doesn't significantly appear in profile output.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4854

# node.py - basic nodeid manipulation for mercurial
#
# Copyright 2005, 2006 Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

from __future__ import absolute_import

import binascii

# This ugly style has a noticeable effect in manifest parsing
hex = binascii.hexlify
# Adapt to Python 3 API changes. If this ends up showing up in
# profiles, we can use this version only on Python 3, and forward
# binascii.unhexlify like we used to on Python 2.
def bin(s):
    try:
        return binascii.unhexlify(s)
    except binascii.Error as e:
        raise TypeError(e)

nullrev = -1
# In hex, this is '0000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
nullid = b"\0" * 20
nullhex = hex(nullid)

# Phony node value to stand-in for new files in some uses of
# manifests.
# In hex, this is '2121212121212121212121212121212121212121'
newnodeid = '!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'
# In hex, this is '3030303030303030303030303030306164646564'
addednodeid = '000000000000000added'
# In hex, this is '3030303030303030303030306d6f646966696564'
modifiednodeid = '000000000000modified'

wdirfilenodeids = {newnodeid, addednodeid, modifiednodeid}

# pseudo identifiers for working directory
# (they are experimental, so don't add too many dependencies on them)
wdirrev = 0x7fffffff
# In hex, this is 'ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff'
wdirid = b"\xff" * 20
wdirhex = hex(wdirid)

def short(node):
    return hex(node[:6])