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dirstate: use a presized dict for the dirstate

This uses a simple heuristic to avoid expensive resizes.

On a real-world repo with around 400,000 files, perfdirstate:

before: ! wall 0.155562 comb 0.160000 user 0.150000 sys 0.010000 (best of 64)
after:  ! wall 0.132638 comb 0.130000 user 0.120000 sys 0.010000 (best of 75)

On another real-world repo with around 250,000 files:

before: ! wall 0.098459 comb 0.100000 user 0.090000 sys 0.010000 (best of 100)
after:  ! wall 0.089084 comb 0.090000 user 0.080000 sys 0.010000 (best of 100)

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 http://mercurial.selenic.com/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.