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delta: exclude base candidate much smaller than the target

If a revision's full text is that much bigger than a base candidate full text,
we no longer consider that candidate.

This solves a pathological case we encountered on a very specify repository.
It contains a long series of changesets with a very small manifest (one file)
co-existing with others changesets using a very large manifest.

Without this filtering, we ended up considering a large number of tiny full
snapshots as a potential base. It resulted in very large delta (the size of
the full text) and mercurial spending 99% of its time compressing these
deltas.

The timing of a commit moved from about 400s to about 10s (still slow, but not
ridiculously slow).

# See http://EditorConfig.org for the specification

root = true

[*.py]
indent_size = 4
indent_style = space
trim_trailing_whitespace = true

[*.{c,h}]
indent_size = 8
indent_style = tab
trim_trailing_whitespace = true

[*.t]
indent_size = 2
indent_style = space
trim_trailing_whitespace = false