annotate tests/histedit-helpers.sh @ 50400:95acba2c29f6

encoding: avoid quadratic time complexity when json-encoding non-UTF8 strings

Apparently the code uses "+=" with a bytes object, which is linear-time, so the
whole encoding is quadratic-time. This patch makes us use a bytearray object,
instead, which has a(n amortized-)constant-time append operation.

The encoding is still not particularly fast, but at least a 10MB file
takes tens of seconds, not many hours to encode.

fixbundle() {
    grep -v 'saving bundle' | grep -v 'saved backup' | \
        grep -v added | grep -v adding | \
        grep -v "unable to find 'e' for patching" | \
        grep -v "e: No such file or directory" | \
    cat
}