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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

Mercurial for Plan 9 from Bell Labs
===================================

This directory contains support for Mercurial on Plan 9 from Bell Labs
platforms. It is assumed that the version of Python running on these
systems supports the ANSI/POSIX Environment (APE). At the time of this
writing, the bichued/python port is the most commonly installed version
of Python on these platforms. If a native port of Python is ever made,
some minor modification will need to be made to support some of the more
esoteric requirements of the platform rather than those currently made
(cf. posix.py).

By default, installations will have the factotum extension enabled; this
extension permits factotum(4) to act as an authentication agent for
HTTP repositories. Additionally, an extdiff command named 9diff is
enabled which generates diff(1) compatible output suitable for use with
the plumber(4).

Commit messages are plumbed using E if no editor is defined; users must
update the plumbed file to continue, otherwise the hg process must be
interrupted.

Some work remains with regard to documentation. Section 5 manual page
references for hgignore and hgrc need to be re-numbered to section 6 (file
formats) and a new man page writer should be written to support the
Plan 9 man macro set. Until these issues can be resolved, manual pages
are elided from the installation.

Basic install:

  % mk install      # do a system-wide install
  % hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
  % hg              # see help

A proto(2) file is included in this directory as an example of how a
binary distribution could be packaged, ostensibly with contrib(1).

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.