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merge: mark file gets as not thread safe (issue5933)

In default installs, this has the effect of disabling the thread-based
worker on Windows when manifesting files in the working directory. My
measurements have shown that with revlog-based repositories, Mercurial
spends a lot of CPU time in revlog code resolving file data. This ends
up incurring a lot of context switching across threads and slows down
`hg update` operations when going from an empty working directory to
the tip of the repo.

On mozilla-unified (246,351 files) on an i7-6700K (4+4 CPUs):

before: 487s wall
after:  360s wall (equivalent to worker.enabled=false)
cpus=2: 379s wall

Even with only 2 threads, the thread pool is still slower.

The introduction of the thread-based worker (02b36e860e0b) states that
it resulted in a "~50%" speedup for `hg sparse --enable-profile` and
`hg sparse --disable-profile`. This disagrees with my measurement
above. I theorize a few reasons for this:

1) Removal of files from the working directory is I/O - not CPU - bound
   and should benefit from a thread pool (unless I/O is insanely fast
   and the GIL release is near instantaneous). So tests like `hg sparse
   --enable-profile` may exercise deletion throughput and aren't good
   benchmarks for worker tasks that are CPU heavy.
2) The patch was authored by someone at Facebook. The results were
   likely measured against a repository using remotefilelog. And I
   believe that revision retrieval during working directory updates with
   remotefilelog will often use a remote store, thus being I/O and not
   CPU bound. This probably resulted in an overstated performance gain.

Since there appears to be a need to enable the thread-based worker with
some stores, I've made the flagging of file gets as thread safe
configurable. I've made it experimental because I don't want to formalize
a boolean flag for this option and because this attribute is best
captured against the store implementation. But we don't have a proper
store API for this yet. I'd rather cross this bridge later.

It is possible there are revlog-based repositories that do benefit from
a thread-based worker. I didn't do very comprehensive testing. If there
are, we may want to devise a more proper algorithm for whether to use
the thread-based worker, including possibly config options to limit the
number of threads to use. But until I see evidence that justifies
complexity, simplicity wins.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3963

  $ hg init

  $ cat > a <<EOF
  > a
  > b
  > c
  > EOF
  $ hg ci -Am adda
  adding a

  $ cat > a <<EOF
  > d
  > e
  > f
  > EOF
  $ hg ci -m moda

  $ hg diff --reverse -r0 -r1
  diff -r 2855cdcfcbb7 -r 8e1805a3cf6e a
  --- a/a	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  +++ b/a	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
  -d
  -e
  -f
  +a
  +b
  +c

  $ cat >> a <<EOF
  > g
  > h
  > EOF
  $ hg diff --reverse --nodates
  diff -r 2855cdcfcbb7 a
  --- a/a
  +++ b/a
  @@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
   d
   e
   f
  -g
  -h

should show removed file 'a' as being added
  $ hg revert a
  $ hg rm a
  $ hg diff --reverse --nodates a
  diff -r 2855cdcfcbb7 a
  --- /dev/null
  +++ b/a
  @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
  +d
  +e
  +f

should show added file 'b' as being removed
  $ echo b >> b
  $ hg add b
  $ hg diff --reverse --nodates b
  diff -r 2855cdcfcbb7 b
  --- a/b
  +++ /dev/null
  @@ -1,1 +0,0 @@
  -b