hgweb.cgi

obsolete: avoid slow, generic date parsing

Simple profiling of `hg log -r .` revealed ~18,000 calls to
mercurial.i18n.gettext() on the author's repository. The
culprit was 3 _() calls in util.parsedate() multiplied by
~6000 obsmarkers originating from the parsing of obsmarkers.

Changing the obsmarker code to parse the stored format of
dates instead of going through a generic path eliminates these
gettext() lookups and makes `hg log -r .` execute ~10% faster
on the author's repo. The performance gain is proportional to
the number of obsmarkers.

The author attempted to patch util.parsedate() to avoid the
gettext() lookups. However, that code is whacky and the author
is jet lagged, so the approach was not attempted.

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# An example hgweb CGI script, edit as necessary
# See also http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/PublishingRepositories

# Path to repo or hgweb config to serve (see 'hg help hgweb')
config = "/path/to/repo/or/config"

# Uncomment and adjust if Mercurial is not installed system-wide
# (consult "installed modules" path from 'hg debuginstall'):
#import sys; sys.path.insert(0, "/path/to/python/lib")

# Uncomment to send python tracebacks to the browser if an error occurs:
#import cgitb; cgitb.enable()

from mercurial import demandimport; demandimport.enable()
from mercurial.hgweb import hgweb, wsgicgi
application = hgweb(config)
wsgicgi.launch(application)