tests/heredoctest.py

perf: add threading capability to perfbdiff

Since we are releasing the GIL during diffing, it is interesting to see how a
thread pool would perform on diffing. We add a new `--threads` argument to
commands. Synchronizing the thread pool is a bit complex because we want to be
able to reuse it from one run to another.

On my computer (i7 with 4 cores + hyperthreading), I get the following data for
about 12000 revisions:
threads wall        comb    wall gain   comb overhead
none    31.596715   31.59    0.00%       0.00%
1       31.621228   31.62   -0.08%       0.09%
2       16.406202   32.8    48.08%       3.83%
3       11.598334   34.76   63.29%      10.03%
4        9.205421   36.77   70.87%      16.40%
5        8.517604   42.51   73.04%      34.57%
6        7.94645    47.58   74.85%      50.62%
7        7.434972   51.92   76.47%      64.36%
8        7.070638   55.34   77.62%      75.18%

Compared to the feature disabled (threads=0), the overhead is negligible with
the threading code (threads=1), and the gain is already 48% with two threads.

from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function

import sys

globalvars = {}
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 += l[4:]
        c = compile(snippet, '<heredoc>', 'single')
        try:
            exec(c, globalvars)
        except Exception as inst:
            print(repr(inst))