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revlog: faster hash computation when one of the parent node is null

Because we often compute sha1(nullid), it's interesting to copy a precomputed
hash of nullid instead of computing everytime the same hash. Similarly, when
one of the parents is null, we can avoid a < comparison (sort).

Overall, this change adds a string equality comparison on each hash() call,
but when p2 is null, we drop one string < comparison, and copy a hash instead
of computing it. Since it is common to have revisions with only one parent,
this change makes hash() 25% faster when cloning a big repository.

Basic install:

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

See http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.