revlog: limit base to rev size ratio to 500 instead of 50
While a value of 50 provided large speedup in some case (400s → 7s) it also
creates a slow down for a whole class of revision we are seeing in a private
repository (0.1s → 3s). A value of 500 makes them disappear improving the
total runtime (the slower revision still improve significantly (400s → 21s)).
We need to run a wider array of tests on various repositories to see the
effect on speed and size of different values for this acceptable constant.
However, in the meantime, it seems safer to move back to a less impactful
value.
--- a/mercurial/revlogutils/deltas.py Fri Dec 21 15:31:16 2018 +0300
+++ b/mercurial/revlogutils/deltas.py Wed Dec 19 10:54:25 2018 +0100
@@ -604,7 +604,7 @@
# If a revision's full text is that much bigger than a base candidate full
# text's, it is very unlikely that it will produce a valid delta. We no longer
# consider these candidates.
-LIMIT_BASE2TEXT = 50
+LIMIT_BASE2TEXT = 500
def _candidategroups(revlog, textlen, p1, p2, cachedelta):
"""Provides group of revision to be tested as delta base