compression: introduce an official `format.revlog-compression` option
This option supersedes the `experiment.format.compression` option. The value
currently supported are zlib (default) and zstd (if Mercurial was compiled with
zstd support).
The option gained an explicit reference to `revlog` since this is the target
usage here. Different storage methods might require different compression
strategies.
In our tests, using zstd give a significant CPU usage improvement (both
compression and decompressing) while keeping similar repository size.
Zstd as other interresting mode (dictionnary, pre-text, etc…) that are probably
worth exploring. However, just plain switching from zlib to zstd provide a large
benefit.
#testcases bdiff xdiff
#if xdiff
#require xdiff
$ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF
> [experimental]
> xdiff = true
> EOF
#endif
Test case that makes use of the weakness of patience diff algorithm
$ hg init
>>> open('a', 'wb').write(('\n'.join(list('a' + 'x' * 10 + 'u' + 'x' * 30 + 'a\n'))).encode('ascii')) and None
$ hg commit -m 1 -A a
>>> open('a', 'wb').write(('\n'.join(list('b' + 'x' * 30 + 'u' + 'x' * 10 + 'b\n'))).encode('ascii')) and None
#if xdiff
$ hg diff
diff -r f0aeecb49805 a
--- a/a Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/a Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-a
+b
x
x
x
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
x
x
x
-u
x
x
x
@@ -30,6 +29,7 @@
x
x
x
+u
x
x
x
@@ -40,5 +40,5 @@
x
x
x
-a
+b
#else
$ hg diff
diff -r f0aeecb49805 a
--- a/a Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/a Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,15 +1,4 @@
-a
-x
-x
-x
-x
-x
-x
-x
-x
-x
-x
-u
+b
x
x
x
@@ -40,5 +29,16 @@
x
x
x
-a
+u
+x
+x
+x
+x
+x
+x
+x
+x
+x
+x
+b
#endif