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profile: upgrade the "profile" context manager to a full class

So far we have been able to use a simple decorator for this. However using the
current context manager makes the scope of the profiling in dispatch
constrainted and the time frame to decide to enable profiling quite limited
(using "maybeprofile")

This is the first step toward the ability to enable the profiling from within
the profiling scope. eg::

  with maybeprofiling(ui) as profiler:
      ...
      bar.foo():
      ...
      if options['profile']:
          profiler.start()
      ...
      fooz()
      ...

My target usecase is adding support for  "--profile" to alias definitions with
effect.  These are to be used with "profiling.output=blackbox" to gather data
about operation that get slow from time to time (eg: pull being minutes instead
of seconds from time to time).

Of course, in such case, the scope of the profiling would be smaller since
profiler would be started after running extensions 'reposetup' (and other
potentially costly logic), but these are not relevant for my target usecase
(multiple second commits, multiple tens of seconds pull).

Currently adding '--profile' to a command through alias requires to re-spin a
Mercurial binary (using "!$HG" in alias), which as a significant performance
impact, especially in context where startup performance is being worked on...

An alternative approach would be to stop using the context manager in dispatch
and move back to a try/finally setup.

[This file is here for historical purposes, all recent contributors
should appear in the changelog directly]

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea at suse.de>
Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de>
Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack at libero.it>
Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix at mulix.org>
Mikael Berthe <mikael at lilotux.net>
Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com>
Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com>
Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml at free.fr>
Jake Edge <jake at edge2.net>
Michael Fetterman <michael.fetterman at intel.com>
Edouard Gomez <ed.gomez at free.fr>
Eric Hopper <hopper at omnifarious.org>
Alecs King <alecsk at gmail.com>
Volker Kleinfeld <Volker.Kleinfeld at gmx.de>
Vadim Lebedev <vadim at mbdsys.com>
Christopher Li <hg at chrisli.org>
Chris Mason <mason at suse.com>
Colin McMillen <mcmillen at cs.cmu.edu>
Wojciech Milkowski <wmilkowski at interia.pl>
Chad Netzer <chad.netzer at gmail.com>
Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>
Vicent Seguí Pascual <vseguip at gmail.com>
Sean Perry <shaleh at speakeasy.net>
Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh at gmail.com>
Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.freenix.fr>
Alexander Schremmer <alex at alexanderweb.de>
Arun Sharma <arun at sharma-home.net>
Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jeffpc at optonline.net>
Kevin Smith <yarcs at qualitycode.com>
TK Soh <teekaysoh at yahoo.com>
Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm at gorzow.mm.pl>
Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149.net>
K Thananchayan <thananck at yahoo.com>
Andrew Thompson <andrewkt at aktzero.com>
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>
Rafael Villar Burke <pachi at mmn-arquitectos.com>
Tristan Wibberley <tristan at wibberley.org>
Mark Williamson <mark.williamson at cl.cam.ac.uk>