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revlog-compression: use zstd by default (if available)

As see in changeset bb271ec2fbfb, zstd is 20% to 50% faster for reading and
writing.

Use take advantage of the new config behavior to try zstd by default, falling
back to zlib is zstd is not available on that plateform.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10326

This directory is meant to cache artifacts useful for tests (such as bundle).

Those artifacts need to be cached because they are slow to regenerate on each
test but too large to be tracked within the repository. They are not expected
to change between each run and can be cached.

The `./scripts/` contains code to generate the artifact while the `cache`
directory contains resulting artifact.