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rust-index: optimize find_gca_candidates() on less than 8 revisions

This is expected to be by far the most common case, given that, e.g.,
merging involves using it on two revisions.

Using a `u8` as support for the bitset obviously divides the amount of
RAM needed by 8. To state the obvious, on a repository with 10 million
changesets, this spares 70MB. It is also possible that it'd be slightly
faster, because it is easier to allocate and provides better cache locality.

It is possible that some exhaustive listing of the traits implemented by
`u8` and `u64` would avoid the added duplication, but that can be done later
and would need a replacement for the `MAX` consts.

Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

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

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.

Notes for packagers
===================

Mercurial ships a copy of the python-zstandard sources. This is used to
provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
module is not intended to be replaced by the plain python-zstandard nor
is it intended to use a system zstd library. Patches can result in hard
to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.