view mercurial/diffhelpers.c @ 29014:f1ca249696ed stable

bdiff: balance recursion to avoid quadratic behavior (issue4704)

For highly structured files like JSON or XML dumps with large numbers
of duplicate lines (eg braces) and isolated matching lines, bdiff
could find large numbers of equally good spans. Because it prefers
earlier matches, this would result in pathologically unbalance
recursion that resulted in quadratic performance.

This patch makes it prefer matches closer to the middle that tend to
balance recursion. This change improves the speed of a pathological
test case from 1100s to 9s.

Included is a smaller test that has a roughly 50x safety margin on the
performance it accepts. It's likely to fail on pure builds because
difflib also has a recursion-balancing problem.

/*
 * diffhelpers.c - helper routines for mpatch
 *
 * Copyright 2007 Chris Mason <[e-mail]>
 *
 * This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
 * of the GNU General Public License v2, incorporated herein by reference.
 */

#include <Python.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

#include "util.h"

static char diffhelpers_doc[] = "Efficient diff parsing";
static PyObject *diffhelpers_Error;


/* fixup the last lines of a and b when the patch has no newline at eof */
static void _fix_newline(PyObject *hunk, PyObject *a, PyObject *b)
{
	Py_ssize_t hunksz = PyList_Size(hunk);
	PyObject *s = PyList_GET_ITEM(hunk, hunksz-1);
	char *l = PyBytes_AsString(s);
	Py_ssize_t alen = PyList_Size(a);
	Py_ssize_t blen = PyList_Size(b);
	char c = l[0];
	PyObject *hline;
	Py_ssize_t sz = PyBytes_GET_SIZE(s);

	if (sz > 1 && l[sz-2] == '\r')
		/* tolerate CRLF in last line */
		sz -= 1;

	hline = PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(l, sz-1);
	if (!hline) {
		return;
	}

	if (c == ' ' || c == '+') {
		PyObject *rline = PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(l + 1, sz - 2);
		PyList_SetItem(b, blen-1, rline);
	}
	if (c == ' ' || c == '-') {
		Py_INCREF(hline);
		PyList_SetItem(a, alen-1, hline);
	}
	PyList_SetItem(hunk, hunksz-1, hline);
}

/* python callable form of _fix_newline */
static PyObject *
fix_newline(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
{
	PyObject *hunk, *a, *b;
	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "OOO", &hunk, &a, &b))
		return NULL;
	_fix_newline(hunk, a, b);
	return Py_BuildValue("l", 0);
}

#if (PY_VERSION_HEX < 0x02050000)
static const char *addlines_format = "OOiiOO";
#else
static const char *addlines_format = "OOnnOO";
#endif

/*
 * read lines from fp into the hunk.  The hunk is parsed into two arrays
 * a and b.  a gets the old state of the text, b gets the new state
 * The control char from the hunk is saved when inserting into a, but not b
 * (for performance while deleting files)
 */
static PyObject *
addlines(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
{

	PyObject *fp, *hunk, *a, *b, *x;
	Py_ssize_t i;
	Py_ssize_t lena, lenb;
	Py_ssize_t num;
	Py_ssize_t todoa, todob;
	char *s, c;
	PyObject *l;
	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, addlines_format,
			      &fp, &hunk, &lena, &lenb, &a, &b))
		return NULL;

	while (1) {
		todoa = lena - PyList_Size(a);
		todob = lenb - PyList_Size(b);
		num = todoa > todob ? todoa : todob;
		if (num == 0)
		    break;
		for (i = 0; i < num; i++) {
			x = PyFile_GetLine(fp, 0);
			s = PyBytes_AsString(x);
			c = *s;
			if (strcmp(s, "\\ No newline at end of file\n") == 0) {
				_fix_newline(hunk, a, b);
				continue;
			}
			if (c == '\n') {
				/* Some patches may be missing the control char
				 * on empty lines. Supply a leading space. */
				Py_DECREF(x);
				x = PyBytes_FromString(" \n");
			}
			PyList_Append(hunk, x);
			if (c == '+') {
				l = PyBytes_FromString(s + 1);
				PyList_Append(b, l);
				Py_DECREF(l);
			} else if (c == '-') {
				PyList_Append(a, x);
			} else {
				l = PyBytes_FromString(s + 1);
				PyList_Append(b, l);
				Py_DECREF(l);
				PyList_Append(a, x);
			}
			Py_DECREF(x);
		}
	}
	return Py_BuildValue("l", 0);
}

/*
 * compare the lines in a with the lines in b.  a is assumed to have
 * a control char at the start of each line, this char is ignored in the
 * compare
 */
static PyObject *
testhunk(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
{

	PyObject *a, *b;
	long bstart;
	Py_ssize_t alen, blen;
	Py_ssize_t i;
	char *sa, *sb;

	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "OOl", &a, &b, &bstart))
		return NULL;
	alen = PyList_Size(a);
	blen = PyList_Size(b);
	if (alen > blen - bstart || bstart < 0) {
		return Py_BuildValue("l", -1);
	}
	for (i = 0; i < alen; i++) {
		sa = PyBytes_AsString(PyList_GET_ITEM(a, i));
		sb = PyBytes_AsString(PyList_GET_ITEM(b, i + bstart));
		if (strcmp(sa + 1, sb) != 0)
			return Py_BuildValue("l", -1);
	}
	return Py_BuildValue("l", 0);
}

static PyMethodDef methods[] = {
	{"addlines", addlines, METH_VARARGS, "add lines to a hunk\n"},
	{"fix_newline", fix_newline, METH_VARARGS, "fixup newline counters\n"},
	{"testhunk", testhunk, METH_VARARGS, "test lines in a hunk\n"},
	{NULL, NULL}
};

#ifdef IS_PY3K
static struct PyModuleDef diffhelpers_module = {
	PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT,
	"diffhelpers",
	diffhelpers_doc,
	-1,
	methods
};

PyMODINIT_FUNC PyInit_diffhelpers(void)
{
	PyObject *m;

	m = PyModule_Create(&diffhelpers_module);
	if (m == NULL)
		return NULL;

	diffhelpers_Error = PyErr_NewException("diffhelpers.diffhelpersError",
											NULL, NULL);
	Py_INCREF(diffhelpers_Error);
	PyModule_AddObject(m, "diffhelpersError", diffhelpers_Error);

	return m;
}
#else
PyMODINIT_FUNC
initdiffhelpers(void)
{
	Py_InitModule3("diffhelpers", methods, diffhelpers_doc);
	diffhelpers_Error = PyErr_NewException("diffhelpers.diffhelpersError",
	                                        NULL, NULL);
}
#endif