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changelog: lazily parse description

Before, the description field was converted to a localstr at parse
time. With this patch, we store the raw description and convert to
a localstr when it is first accessed.

We see a revset speedup for revsets that don't access the description:

author(mpm)
0.896565
0.914234
0.869085

date(2015)
0.878797
0.891980
0.862525

extra(rebase_source)
0.865446
0.912514
0.871500

author(mpm) or author(greg)
1.801832
1.860402
1.791589

date(2015) or branch(default)
0.968276
0.994673
0.974027

author(mpm) or desc(bug) or date(2015) or extra(rebase_source)
3.656193
3.721032
3.643593

As you can see, most of these revsets are already faster than from
before this refactoring: we have already offset the performance
loss from the introduction of the new class representing parsed
changelog entries!

Mercurial
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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

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