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scmutil: support background file closing

Closing files that have been appended to is relatively slow on
Windows/NTFS. This makes several Mercurial operations slower on
Windows.

The workaround to this issue is conceptually simple: use multiple
threads for I/O. Unfortunately, Python doesn't scale well to multiple
threads because of the GIL. And, refactoring our code to use threads
everywhere would be a huge undertaking. So, we decide to tackle this
problem by starting small: establishing a thread pool for closing
files.

This patch establishes a mechanism for closing file handles on separate
threads. The coordinator object is basically a queue of file handles to
operate on and a thread pool consuming from the queue.

When files are opened through the VFS layer, the caller can specify
that delay closing is allowed.

A proxy class for file handles has been added. We must use a proxy
because it isn't possible to modify __class__ on built-in types. This
adds some overhead. But as future patches will show, this overhead
is cancelled out by the benefit of closing file handles on background
threads.

syntax: glob

*.elc
*.tmp
*.orig
*.rej
*~
*.mergebackup
*.o
*.so
*.dll
*.exe
*.pyd
*.pyc
*.pyo
*$py.class
*.swp
*.prof
*.zip
\#*\#
.\#*
tests/.coverage*
tests/.testtimes*
tests/annotated
tests/*.err
tests/htmlcov
build
contrib/hgsh/hgsh
contrib/vagrant/.vagrant
dist
packages
doc/common.txt
doc/*.[0-9]
doc/*.[0-9].txt
doc/*.[0-9].gendoc.txt
doc/*.[0-9].{x,ht}ml
MANIFEST
MANIFEST.in
patches
mercurial/__version__.py
mercurial/hgpythonlib.h
mercurial.egg-info
.DS_Store
tags
cscope.*
.idea/*
i18n/hg.pot
locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/hg.mo
hgext/__index__.py

# files installed with a local --pure build
mercurial/base85.py
mercurial/bdiff.py
mercurial/diffhelpers.py
mercurial/mpatch.py
mercurial/osutil.py
mercurial/parsers.py

syntax: regexp
^\.pc/
^\.(pydev)?project

# hackable windows distribution additions
^hg-python
^hg.py$