Xidorn Quan <me@upsuper.org> [Fri, 11 Nov 2016 13:06:05 +1100] rev 30367
color: show mode warning based on ui.formatted
ui.interactive is only for input and ui.formatted is for output.
Augie Fackler <augie@google.com> [Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:14:05 -0500] rev 30366
protocol: drop unused import of zlib
Something weird is happening that breaks pyflakes installed via 'pip
install --user'. I haven't had a chance to finish debugging this, but
this at least fixes the build.
Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org> [Tue, 08 Nov 2016 22:41:45 +0900] rev 30365
hook: lower inflated use of sys.__stdout__ and __stderr__
They were introduced at
9f76df0edb7d, where sys.stdout could be replaced by
sys.stderr. After that, we've changed the way of stdout redirection by
afccc64eea73, so we no longer need to reference the original __stdout__ and
__stderr__ objects.
Let's move away from using __std*__ objects so we can simply wrap sys.std*
objects for Python 3 porting.
Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org> [Tue, 08 Nov 2016 22:22:22 +0900] rev 30364
hook: flush stdout before restoring stderr redirection
There was a similar issue to
8b011ededfb2. If an in-process hook writes
to stdout, the data may be buffered. In which case, stdout must be flushed
before restoring its file descriptor. Otherwise, remaining data would be sent
over the ssh wire and corrupts the protocol.
Note that this is a different redirection from the one I've just removed.
Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org> [Thu, 20 Oct 2016 22:39:59 +0900] rev 30363
hook: do not redirect stdout/err/in to ui while running in-process hooks (BC)
It was introduced by
a59058fd074a to address command-server issues. After
that, I've made a complete fix by
69f86b937035, so we don't need to replace
sys.stdio objects to protect the IPC channels.
This change means we no longer see data written to sys.stdout/err by an
in-process hook on command server. I think that's okay because the canonical
way is to use ui functions and in-process hooks should respect the Mercurial
API.
This will help Python 3 porting, where sys.stdout is TextIO but ui.fout is
BytesIO.
Durham Goode <durham@fb.com> [Thu, 10 Nov 2016 02:21:15 -0800] rev 30362
merge: change modified indicator to be 20 bytes
Previously we indicated that the .hgsubstate file was dirty by adding a '+' to
the end of its hash in the wctx manifest. This made is complicated to have new
manifest implementations that rely on the node length being fixed.
In previous patches we added added and modified node placeholders, so let's use
those to indicate dirty here as well. It doesn't look like anything ever
depended on this '+' (aside from it being different to the parent), so nothing
else needed to change here.
Durham Goode <durham@fb.com> [Thu, 10 Nov 2016 02:19:16 -0800] rev 30361
dirstate: change added/modified placeholder hash length to 20 bytes
Previously the added/modified placeholder hash for manifests generated from the
dirstate was a 21byte long string consisting of the p1 file hash plus a single
character to indicate an add or a modify. Normal hashes are only 20 bytes long.
This makes it complicated to implement more efficient manifest implementations
which rely on the hashes being fixed length.
Let's change this hash to just be 20 bytes long, and rely on the astronomical
improbability of an actual hash being these 20 bytes (just like we rely on no
hash every being the nullid).
This changes the possible behavior slightly in that the hash for all
added/modified entries in the dirstate manifest will now be the same (so simple
node comparisons would say they are equal), but we should never be doing simple
node comparisons on these nodes even with the old hashes, because they did not
accurately represent the content (i.e. two files based off the same p1 file
node, with different working copy contents would have the same hash (even with
the appended character) in the old scheme too, so we couldn't depend on the
hashes period).
Durham Goode <durham@fb.com> [Thu, 10 Nov 2016 02:17:22 -0800] rev 30360
dirstate: change placeholder hash length to 20 bytes
Previously the new-node placeholder hash for manifests generated from the
dirstate was a 21byte long string of "!" characters. Normal hashes are only 20
bytes long. This makes it complicated to implement more efficient manifest
implementations which rely on the hashes being fixed length.
Let's change this hash to just be 20 bytes long, and rely on the astronomical
improbability of an actual hash being 20 "!" bytes in a row (just like we rely
on no hash ever being the nullid).
A future diff will do this for added and modified dirstate markers as well, so
we're putting the new newnodeid in node.py so there's a common place for these
placeholders.
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:57:54 -0800] rev 30359
util: remove compressorobj API from compression engines
All callers have been replaced with "compressstream." It is quite
low-level and redundant with "compressstream." So eliminate it.
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:54:35 -0800] rev 30358
hgweb: use compression engine API for zlib compression
More low-level compression code elimination because we now have nice
APIs.
This patch also demonstrates why we needed and implemented the
"level" option on the "compressstream" API.
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:46:37 -0800] rev 30357
bundle2: use compressstream compression engine API
Compression engines now have an API for compressing a stream of
chunks. Switch to it and make low-level compression code disappear.
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:57:07 -0800] rev 30356
util: add a stream compression API to compression engines
It is a common pattern throughout the code to perform compression
on an iterator of chunks, yielding an iterator of compressed chunks.
Let's formalize that as part of the compression engine API.
The zlib and bzip2 implementations allow an optional "level" option
to control the compression level. The default values are the same as
what the Python modules use. This option will be used in subsequent
patches.
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:39:08 -0800] rev 30355
util: remove decompressors dict (API)
All in-tree consumers are now using the compengines registrar.
Extensions should switch to it as well.
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:38:13 -0800] rev 30354
changegroup: use compression engines API
The new API doesn't have the equivalence for None and 'UN' so we
introduce code to use 'UN' explicitly.
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:36:48 -0800] rev 30353
bundle2: use compression engines API to obtain decompressor
Like the recent change for the compressor side, this too is
relatively straightforward. We now store a compression engine
on the instance instead of a low-level decompressor. Again, this
will allow us to easily transition to different compression engine
APIs when they are implemented.
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:34:51 -0800] rev 30352
util: remove compressors dict (API)
We no longer have any in-tree consumers of this object. Use
util.compengines instead.
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:35:43 -0800] rev 30351
bundle2: use new compression engine API for compression
Now that we have a new API to define compression engines, let's put it
to use!
The new code stores a reference to the compression engine instead of
a low-level compressor object. This will allow us to more easily
transition to different APIs on the compression engine interface
once we implement them.
As part of this, we change the registration in bundletypes to use 'UN'
instead of None. Previously, util.compressors had the no-op compressor
registered under both the 'UN' and None keys. Since we're switching to
a new API, I don't see the point in carrying this dual registration
forward.
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:31:39 -0800] rev 30350
util: create new abstraction for compression engines
Currently, util.py has "compressors" and "decompressors" dicts
mapping compression algorithms to callables returning objects that
perform well-defined operations. In addition, revlog.py has code
for calling into a compressor or decompressor explicitly. And, there
is code in the wire protocol for performing zlib compression.
The 3rd party lz4revlog extension has demonstrated the utility of
supporting alternative compression formats for revlog storage. But
it stops short of supporting lz4 for bundles and the wire protocol.
There are also plans to support zstd as a general compression
replacement.
So, there appears to be a market for a unified API for registering
compression engines. This commit starts the process of establishing
one.
This commit establishes a base class/interface for defining
compression engines and how they will be used. A collection class
to hold references to registered compression engines has also been
introduced.
The built-in zlib, bz2, truncated bz2, and no-op compression engines
are registered with a singleton instance of the collection class.
The compression engine API will change once consumers are ported
to the new API and some common patterns can be simplified at the
engine API level. So don't get too attached to the API...
Augie Fackler <augie@google.com> [Sun, 09 Oct 2016 09:25:39 -0400] rev 30349
config: mark parser regexes as bytes explicitly
r-strings are not transformed into bytes by our source transformer magic.
Augie Fackler <augie@google.com> [Sun, 09 Oct 2016 09:17:49 -0400] rev 30348
ui: explicitly open config files in binary mode
This has been working mostly accidentally, but now it works explicitly.
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Wed, 09 Nov 2016 16:04:44 -0800] rev 30347
help: fix double word usage
"most" was used twice.
(I fixed a grammar error before timeless spotted it!)
Jun Wu <quark@fb.com> [Wed, 09 Nov 2016 22:08:30 +0000] rev 30346
setup: move cffi stuff to mercurial/cffi
This patch moves all setup*cffi stuff to mercurial/cffi to make the root
directory cleaner. The idea was from mpm [1]:
> It seems like we could have a fair amount of cffi definitions, and
> cluttering the root directory (or mercurial/) with them is probably not
> a great long-term solution. We could probably add a cffi/ directory
> under mercurial/ to parallel pure/.
[1]: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2016-July/086442.html
Durham Goode <durham@fb.com> [Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:03:43 -0800] rev 30345
manifest: remove manifest.add and add memmfctx.write
This removes one more dependency on the manifest class by moving the write
functionality onto the memmanifestctx classes and changing the one consumer to
use the new API.
By moving the write path to a manifestctx, we now give the individual manifests
control over how they're read and serialized. This will be useful in developing
new manifest formats and storage systems.
Durham Goode <durham@fb.com> [Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:03:43 -0800] rev 30344
context: add manifestctx property on changectx
This allows us to access the manifestctx for a given commit. This will be used
in a later patch to be able to copy the manifestctx when we want to make a new
commit.
Durham Goode <durham@fb.com> [Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:03:43 -0800] rev 30343
manifest: add copy to mfctx classes
This adds copy functionality to the manifestctx classes. This will be used in an
upcoming diff to copy a manifestctx during commit so we can modify the manifest
before committing.
Durham Goode <durham@fb.com> [Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:03:43 -0800] rev 30342
manifest: introduce memmanifestctx and memtreemanifestctx
This introduces two new classes to represent in-memory manifest instances.
Similar to memchangectx, this lets us prepare a manifest in memory, then in a
future patch we will add the apis that can commit this in memory structure.
Durham Goode <durham@fb.com> [Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:03:43 -0800] rev 30341
manifestctx: add _revlog() function
The `self._repo.manifestlog._revlog` code is getting copy and pasted a lot in
manifestctx. Let's make it a function so it can be reused. This will make future
patches cleaner too.
Durham Goode <durham@fb.com> [Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:03:43 -0800] rev 30340
manifest: remove manifest.find
As part of removing dependencies on manifest, this drops the find function and
fixes up the two existing callers to use the equivalent apis on manifestctx.
Durham Goode <durham@fb.com> [Tue, 08 Nov 2016 08:03:43 -0800] rev 30339
changegroup: remove remaining uses of repo.manifest
The remaining uses of repo.manifest in the changegroup module are treating the
manifest exclusively as a revlog, so let's replace them with instances of the
revlog directly.
This is part of dropping all dependencies on repo.manifest in favor of
repo.manifestlog.
Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@google.com> [Fri, 04 Nov 2016 13:49:15 -0700] rev 30338
treemanifest: fix a "treeinmem" case
f2c5b9d48b29 (manifest: make treemanifestctx store the repo,
2016-10-18) broke most tests when run with treeinmem=True. The
treeinmem mode can not be enabled by the user, so this did not break
anything in practice, but it's useful to have it working for testing
the treemanifest code.
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Sun, 06 Nov 2016 10:46:55 -0800] rev 30337
perf: support measuring bdiff for all changeset related data
The --all argument changes the behavior of `perfbdiff` to pull
in fulltext revision pairs for all changes related to a changeset.
The p1 and p2 manifests will be bdiffed against current. Every file
that changed between p1 and current will have its file revisions
loaded and bdiffed.
This mode of operation effectively measured the bdiff time required
for `hg commit`.
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Sun, 06 Nov 2016 11:01:25 -0800] rev 30336
perf: support bdiffing multiple revisions in a single revlog
This is useful for testing bdiff performance on several revision
pairs at a time.
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Sun, 06 Nov 2016 09:51:14 -0800] rev 30335
perf: prepare to handle multiple pairs in perfbdiff
Before, we only supported benchmarking a single pair of texts
with bdiff. We want to enable feeding larger corpora into this
benchmark. So rewrite the code to support that.
Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org> [Wed, 09 Nov 2016 22:06:09 +0900] rev 30334
py3: document why os.fsencode() can be used to get back bytes argv
And a possible Windows issue. I'm sad we have to do such ugly hack, but
that's the unicode on Python 3.
Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org> [Wed, 09 Nov 2016 22:15:51 +0900] rev 30333
py3: update test-check-py3-compat.t output
4b1af1c867fa (scmutil: move util.termwidth()) changed where the import fails.
Mads Kiilerich <madski@unity3d.com> [Mon, 17 Oct 2016 23:16:55 +0200] rev 30332
spelling: fixes of non-dictionary words
Durham Goode <durham@fb.com> [Thu, 03 Nov 2016 17:31:14 -0700] rev 30331
manifest: add __nonzero__ method
This adds a __nonzero__ method to manifestdict. This isn't strictly necessary in
the vanilla Mercurial implementation, since Python will handle nonzero checks by
using __len__, but having it implemented here makes it easier for alternative
implementations to implement __nonzero__ and have them be plug-n-play with the
normal implementation.
Pulkit Goyal <7895pulkit@gmail.com> [Sun, 06 Nov 2016 04:36:26 +0530] rev 30330
py3: have bytes version of sys.argv
sys.argv returns unicodes on Python 3. We need a bytes version for us.
There was also a python bug/feature request which wanted then to implement
one. They rejected and it is quoted in one of the comments that we can use
fsencode() to get a bytes version of sys.argv. Though not sure about its
correctness.
Link to the comment: http://bugs.python.org/
issue8776#msg217416
After this patch we will have pycompat.sysargv which will return us bytes
version of sys.argv. If this patch goes in, i will like to make transformer
rewrite sys.argv with pycompat.argv because there are lot of occurences.
Augie Fackler <augie@google.com> [Sun, 09 Oct 2016 09:00:47 -0400] rev 30329
util: use '\\' rather than using r'\'
We need bytes, and I find this just a little more immediately obvious
than doing rb'\'.
Augie Fackler <augie@google.com> [Sun, 09 Oct 2016 09:03:10 -0400] rev 30328
util: use pycompat urlunquote function
Augie Fackler <augie@google.com> [Sun, 09 Oct 2016 09:02:25 -0400] rev 30327
pycompat: introduce an alias for urllib.unquote
We have to use unquote_to_bytes on Python 3, so we need an abstraction
for this.
Christian Ebert <blacktrash@gmx.net> [Mon, 17 Oct 2016 17:42:46 +0200] rev 30326
keyword: handle filectx _customcmp
Suggested by Yuya Nishihara:
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2016-October/089461.html
Related to
issue5364.
Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org> [Thu, 20 Oct 2016 22:20:31 +0900] rev 30325
mail: do not print(), use ui.debug() instead
Since print() can't take a bytes output, it's pretty useless in Mercurial
on Python 3. As this is a debug message, switching to ui.debug() seems fine.
Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org> [Thu, 20 Oct 2016 22:12:48 +0900] rev 30324
progress: obtain stderr from ui
This will help Python 3 porting.
Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org> [Thu, 20 Oct 2016 22:09:50 +0900] rev 30323
simplemerge: obtain stdout from ui
This will help Python 3 porting.
Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org> [Thu, 20 Oct 2016 22:07:03 +0900] rev 30322
profiling: obtain stderr from ui
This will help Python 3 porting.
FUJIWARA Katsunori <foozy@lares.dti.ne.jp> [Sun, 13 Nov 2016 06:12:22 +0900] rev 30321
scmutil: ignore EPERM at os.utime, which avoids ambiguity at closing
According to POSIX specification, just having group write access to a
file causes EPERM at invocation of os.utime() with an explicit time
information (e.g. working on the repository shared by group access
permission).
To ignore EPERM at closing file object in such case, this patch makes
checkambigatclosing._checkambig() use filestat.avoidambig() introduced
by previous patch.
Some functions below imply this code path at truncation of an existing
(= might be owned by another user) file.
- strip() in repair.py, introduced by
e38d85be978f
- _playback() in transaction.py, introduced by
599912a62ff6
This is a variant of
issue5418.
FUJIWARA Katsunori <foozy@lares.dti.ne.jp> [Sun, 13 Nov 2016 06:11:56 +0900] rev 30320
vfs: ignore EPERM at os.utime, which avoids ambiguity at renaming (
issue5418)
According to POSIX specification, just having group write access to a
file causes EPERM at invocation of os.utime() with an explicit time
information (e.g. working on the repository shared by group access
permission).
To ignore EPERM at renaming in such case, this patch makes
vfs.rename() use filestat.avoidambig() introduced by previous patch.
FUJIWARA Katsunori <foozy@lares.dti.ne.jp> [Sun, 13 Nov 2016 06:06:23 +0900] rev 30319
util: add utility function to skip avoiding file stat ambiguity if EPERM
Now, advancing stat.st_mtime by os.utime() is used to avoid file stat
ambiguity. But according to POSIX specification, utime(2) with an
explicit time information is permitted only for a process with:
- the effective user ID equal to the user ID of the file, or
- appropriate privileges
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/
9699919799/functions/utime.html
Therefore, just having group write access to a file causes EPERM at
applying os.utime() on it (e.g. working on the repository shared by
group access permission).
This patch adds class filestat utility function avoidamgig() to avoid
file stat ambiguity but skip it if EPERM.
It is reasonable to always ignore EPERM, because utime(2) causes EPERM
only in the case described above (EACCES is used only for utime(2)
with NULL).
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Sun, 06 Nov 2016 18:51:57 -0800] rev 30318
bdiff: replace hash algorithm
This patch replaces lyhash with the hash algorithm used by diffutils.
The algorithm has its origins in Git commit
2e9d1410, which is all the
way back from 1992. The license header in the code at that revision
in GPL v2.
I have not performed an extensive analysis of the distribution
(and therefore buckets) of hash output. However, `hg perfbdiff`
gives some clear wins. I'd like to think that if it is good enough
for diffutils it is good enough for us?
From the mozilla-unified repository:
$ perfbdiff -m
3041e4d59df2
! wall 0.053271 comb 0.060000 user 0.060000 sys 0.000000 (best of 100)
! wall 0.035827 comb 0.040000 user 0.040000 sys 0.000000 (best of 100)
$ perfbdiff
0e9928989e9c --alldata --count 100
! wall 6.204277 comb 6.200000 user 6.200000 sys 0.000000 (best of 3)
! wall 4.309710 comb 4.300000 user 4.300000 sys 0.000000 (best of 3)
From the hg repo:
$ perfbdiff 35000 --alldata --count 1000
! wall 0.660358 comb 0.660000 user 0.660000 sys 0.000000 (best of 15)
! wall 0.534092 comb 0.530000 user 0.530000 sys 0.000000 (best of 19)
Looking at the generated assembly and statistical profiler output
from the kernel level, I believe there is room to make this function
even faster. Namely, we're still consuming data character by character
instead of at the word level. This translates to more loop iterations
and more instructions.
At this juncture though, the real performance killer is that we're
hashing every line. We should get a significant speedup if we change
the algorithm to find the longest prefix, longest suffix, treat those
as single "lines" and then only do the line splitting and hashing on
the parts that are different. That will require a lot of C code,
however. I'm optimistic this approach could result in a ~2x speedup.
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Fri, 04 Nov 2016 21:44:25 -0700] rev 30317
profiling: make statprof the default profiler (BC)
The statprof sampling profiler runs with significantly less overhead.
Its data is therefore more useful. Furthermore, its default output
shows the hotpath by default, which I've found to be way more useful
than the default profiler's function time table.
There is one behavioral regression with this change worth noting:
the statprof profiler currently doesn't profile individual hgweb
requests like lsprof does. This is because the current implementation
of statprof only profiles the thread that started profiling.
The ability for lsprof to profile individual hgweb requests is
relatively new and likely not widely used. Furthermore, I have plans
to modify statprof to support profiling multiple threads. I expect
that change to go through several iterations. I'm submitting this
patch first so there is more time to test statprof. Perfect is the
enemy of good.
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Fri, 04 Nov 2016 20:50:38 -0700] rev 30316
profiling: use vendored statprof and upstream enhancements (BC)
Now that the statprof module is vendored and suitable for use, we
switch our statprof profiler to use it. This required some minor
changes because of drift between the official statprof profiler
and the vendored copy.
We also incorporate Facebook's improvements from the "statprofext"
extension at
https://bitbucket.org/facebook/hg-experimental, notably support for
different display formats.
Because statprof output is different, this is marked as BC. Although
most users likely won't notice since most users don't profile.
Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org> [Thu, 20 Oct 2016 23:16:32 +0900] rev 30315
crecord: use scmutil.termsize()
Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org> [Thu, 20 Oct 2016 23:09:05 +0900] rev 30314
scmutil: extend termwidth() to return terminal height, renamed to termsize()
It appears crecord.py has its own termsize() function. I want to get rid of it.
The fallback height is chosen from the default of cmd.exe on Windows, and
VT100 on Unix.
Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org> [Thu, 20 Oct 2016 22:57:12 +0900] rev 30313
scmutil: clarify that we explicitly do termwidth - 1 on Windows
I was a bit confused since we didn't add 1 to the width, which is different
from the example shown in StackOverflow.
http://stackoverflow.com/a/
12642749
Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org> [Thu, 20 Oct 2016 21:57:32 +0900] rev 30312
scmutil: remove superfluous indent from termwidth()
Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org> [Thu, 20 Oct 2016 21:50:29 +0900] rev 30311
scmutil: narrow ImportError handling in termwidth()
The array module must exist. It's sufficient to suppress the ImportError of
termios. Also salvaged the comment why we have to handle AttributeError, from
7002bb17cc5e.
Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org> [Thu, 20 Oct 2016 21:42:11 +0900] rev 30310
scmutil: make termwidth() obtain stdio from ui
I'm getting rid of direct sys.stderr|out|in references so Py3 porting will
be slightly easier.
Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org> [Thu, 20 Oct 2016 21:38:44 +0900] rev 30309
scmutil: move util.termwidth()
I'm going to get rid of sys.stderr|out|in references from posix.termwidth().
In order to do that, termwidth() needs to take a ui, but functions in util.py
shouldn't depend on a ui object. So moves termwidth() to scmutil.py.
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Sun, 06 Nov 2016 00:37:50 -0700] rev 30308
bdiff: don't check border condition in loop
`plast = a + len - 1`. So, this "for" loop iterates from "a" to "plast",
inclusive. So, `p == plast` can only be true on the final iteration
of the loop. So checking for it on every loop iteration is wasteful.
This patch simply decreases the upper bound of the loop by 1 and
adds an explicit check after iteration for the `p == plast` case.
We can't simply add 1 to the initial value for "i" because that
doesn't do the correct thing on empty input strings.
`perfbdiff -m
3041e4d59df2` on the Firefox repo becomes significantly
faster:
! wall 0.072763 comb 0.070000 user 0.070000 sys 0.000000 (best of 100)
! wall 0.053221 comb 0.060000 user 0.060000 sys 0.000000 (best of 100)
For the curious, this code has its origins in
8b067bde6679, which is
the changeset that introduced bdiff.c in 2005.
Also, GNU diffutils is able to perform a similar line-based diff in
under 20ms. So there's likely more perf wins to be found in this code.
One of them is the hashing algorithm. But it looks like mpm spent
some time testing hash collisions in
d0c48891dd4a. I'd like to do the
same before switching away from lyhash, just to be on the safe side.