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nodemap: introduce an option to use mmap to read the nodemap mapping

The performance and memory benefit is much greater if we don't have to copy all
the data in memory for each information. So we introduce an option (on by
default) to read the data using mmap.

This changeset is the last one definition the API for index support nodemap
data. (they have to be able to use the mmaping).

Below are some benchmark comparing the best we currently have in 5.3 with the
final step of this series (using the persistent nodemap implementation in
Rust). The benchmark run `hg perfindex` with various revset and the following
variants:

Before:

 * do not use the persistent nodemap
 * use the CPython implementation of the index for nodemap
 * use mmapping of the changelog index

After:

 * use the MixedIndex Rust code, with the NodeTree object for nodemap access
   (still in review)
 * use the persistent nodemap data from disk
 * access the persistent nodemap data through mmap
 * use mmapping of the changelog index

The persistent nodemap greatly speed up  most operation on very large
repositories. Some of the previously very fast lookup end up a bit slower because
the persistent nodemap has to be setup. However the absolute slowdown is very
small and won't matters in the big picture.

Here are some numbers (in seconds) for the reference copy of mozilla-try:

Revset            Before   After     abs-change speedup

-10000:           0.004622 0.005532   0.000910  ×   0.83
-10:              0.000050 0.000132   0.000082  ×   0.37
tip               0.000052 0.000085   0.000033  ×   0.61
0 + (-10000:)     0.028222 0.005337  -0.022885  ×   5.29
0                 0.023521 0.000084  -0.023437  × 280.01
(-10000:) + 0     0.235539 0.005308  -0.230231  ×  44.37
(-10:) + :9       0.232883 0.000180  -0.232703  ×1293.79
(-10000:) + (:99) 0.238735 0.005358  -0.233377  ×  44.55
:99 + (-10000:)   0.317942 0.005593  -0.312349  ×  56.84
:9 + (-10:)       0.313372 0.000179  -0.313193  ×1750.68
:9                0.316450 0.000143  -0.316307  ×2212.93


On smaller repositories, the cost of nodemap related operation is not as big, so
the win is much more modest. Yet it helps shaving a handful of millisecond here
and there.

Here are some numbers (in seconds) for the reference copy of mercurial:

Revset            Before   After     abs-change speedup
-10:              0.000065 0.000097   0.000032  × 0.67
tip               0.000063 0.000078   0.000015  × 0.80
0                 0.000561 0.000079  -0.000482  × 7.10
-10000:           0.004609 0.003648  -0.000961  × 1.26
0 + (-10000:)     0.005023 0.003715  -0.001307  × 1.35
(-10:) + :9       0.002187 0.000108  -0.002079  ×20.25
(-10000:) + 0     0.006252 0.003716  -0.002536  × 1.68
(-10000:) + (:99) 0.006367 0.003707  -0.002660  × 1.71
:9 + (-10:)       0.003846 0.000110  -0.003736  ×34.96
:9                0.003854 0.000099  -0.003755  ×38.92
:99 + (-10000:)   0.007644 0.003778  -0.003866  × 2.02

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D7894

[This file is here for historical purposes, all recent contributors
should appear in the changelog directly]

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea at suse.de>
Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de>
Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack at libero.it>
Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix at mulix.org>
Mikael Berthe <mikael at lilotux.net>
Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com>
Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com>
Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml at free.fr>
Jake Edge <jake at edge2.net>
Michael Fetterman <michael.fetterman at intel.com>
Edouard Gomez <ed.gomez at free.fr>
Eric Hopper <hopper at omnifarious.org>
Alecs King <alecsk at gmail.com>
Volker Kleinfeld <Volker.Kleinfeld at gmx.de>
Vadim Lebedev <vadim at mbdsys.com>
Christopher Li <hg at chrisli.org>
Chris Mason <mason at suse.com>
Colin McMillen <mcmillen at cs.cmu.edu>
Wojciech Milkowski <wmilkowski at interia.pl>
Chad Netzer <chad.netzer at gmail.com>
Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>
Vicent Seguí Pascual <vseguip at gmail.com>
Sean Perry <shaleh at speakeasy.net>
Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh at gmail.com>
Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.freenix.fr>
Alexander Schremmer <alex at alexanderweb.de>
Arun Sharma <arun at sharma-home.net>
Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jeffpc at optonline.net>
Kevin Smith <yarcs at qualitycode.com>
TK Soh <teekaysoh at yahoo.com>
Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm at gorzow.mm.pl>
Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149.net>
K Thananchayan <thananck at yahoo.com>
Andrew Thompson <andrewkt at aktzero.com>
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>
Rafael Villar Burke <pachi at mmn-arquitectos.com>
Tristan Wibberley <tristan at wibberley.org>
Mark Williamson <mark.williamson at cl.cam.ac.uk>