perf: add threading capability to perfbdiff
Since we are releasing the GIL during diffing, it is interesting to see how a
thread pool would perform on diffing. We add a new `--threads` argument to
commands. Synchronizing the thread pool is a bit complex because we want to be
able to reuse it from one run to another.
On my computer (i7 with 4 cores + hyperthreading), I get the following data for
about 12000 revisions:
threads wall comb wall gain comb overhead
none 31.596715 31.59 0.00% 0.00%
1 31.621228 31.62 -0.08% 0.09%
2 16.406202 32.8 48.08% 3.83%
3 11.598334 34.76 63.29% 10.03%
4 9.205421 36.77 70.87% 16.40%
5 8.517604 42.51 73.04% 34.57%
6 7.94645 47.58 74.85% 50.62%
7 7.434972 51.92 76.47% 64.36%
8 7.070638 55.34 77.62% 75.18%
Compared to the feature disabled (threads=0), the overhead is negligible with
the threading code (threads=1), and the gain is already 48% with two threads.
$ echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRCPATH
$ echo "mq=" >> $HGRCPATH
$ hg init
$ echo qqq>qqq.txt
rollback dry run without rollback information
$ hg rollback
no rollback information available
[1]
add file
$ hg add
adding qqq.txt
commit first revision
$ hg ci -m 1
set bookmark
$ hg book test
$ echo www>>qqq.txt
commit second revision
$ hg ci -m 2
set bookmark
$ hg book test2
update to -2 (deactivates the active bookmark)
$ hg update -r -2
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(leaving bookmark test2)
$ echo eee>>qqq.txt
commit new head
$ hg ci -m 3
created new head
bookmarks updated?
$ hg book
test 1:25e1ee7a0081
test2 1:25e1ee7a0081
strip to revision 1
$ hg strip 1
saved backup bundle to $TESTTMP/.hg/strip-backup/*-backup.hg (glob)
list bookmarks
$ hg book
test 0:5c9ad3787638
test2 0:5c9ad3787638