setup: drop support for Python 2.6 (BC) Per discussion on the mailing list and elsewhere, we've decided that Python 2.6 is too old to continue supporting. We keep accumulating hacks/fixes/workarounds for 2.6 and this is taking time away from more important work. So with this patch, we officially drop support for Python 2.6 and require Python 2.7 to run Mercurial.

perf: move revlog construction and length calculation out of benchmark We don't need to measure the time it takes to open the revlog or calculate its length. This is more consistent with what other perf* functions do. While I was here, I also renamed the revlog variable from "r" to "rl" - again in the name of consistency.

perf: clear revlog caches on every iteration cmdutil.openrevlog() may return a cached revlog instance. This /may/ be a recent "regression" due to refactoring of the manifest API. I'm not sure. Either way, this perf command was broken for at least manifests because subsequent invocations of the perf function would get cache hits from previous invocations, invalidating results. In the extreme case, testing the last revision in the revlog resulted in near-instantanous execution of subsequent runs (since the fulltext is cached). A time of ~1us would be reported in this case.

perf: don't convert rev to node before calling revlog.revision()