status: prefer relative paths in Rust code
… when the repository root is under the current directory,
so the kernel needs to traverse fewer directory in every call
to `read_dir` or `symlink_metadata`.
Better yet would be to use libc functions like `openat` and `fstatat`
to remove such repeated traversals entirely, but the standard library
does not provide APIs based on those.
Maybe with a crate like https://crates.io/crates/openat instead?
Benchmarks of `rhg status` show that this patch is neutral in some configurations,
and makes the command up to ~20% faster in others.
Below is semi-arbitrary subset of results. The four numeric columns are:
time (in seconds) with this changeset’s parent, time with this changeset,
time difference (negative is better), time ratio (less than 1 is better).
```
mercurial-dirstate-v1 | default-plain-clean.no-iu.pbr | 0.0061 -> 0.0059: -0.0002 (0.97)
mercurial-dirstate-v2 | default-plain-clean.no-iu.pbr | 0.0029 -> 0.0028: -0.0001 (0.97)
mozilla-dirstate-v1 | default-plain-clean.no-iu.pbr | 0.2110 -> 0.2102: -0.0007 (1.00)
mozilla-dirstate-v2 | default-copies-clean.ignored.pbr | 0.0489 -> 0.0401: -0.0088 (0.82)
mozilla-dirstate-v2 | default-copies-clean.no-iu.pbr | 0.0479 -> 0.0393: -0.0085 (0.82)
mozilla-dirstate-v2 | default-copies-large.all.pbr | 0.1262 -> 0.1210: -0.0051 (0.96)
mozilla-dirstate-v2 | default-copies-small.ignored-unknown.pbr | 0.1262 -> 0.1200: -0.0062 (0.95)
mozilla-dirstate-v2 | default-copies-small.ignored.pbr | 0.0536 -> 0.0417: -0.0119 (0.78)
mozilla-dirstate-v2 | default-copies-small.no-iu.pbr | 0.0482 -> 0.0393: -0.0089 (0.81)
mozilla-dirstate-v2 | default-plain-clean.ignored.pbr | 0.0518 -> 0.0402: -0.0116 (0.78)
mozilla-dirstate-v2 | default-plain-clean.no-iu.pbr | 0.0481 -> 0.0392: -0.0088 (0.82)
mozilla-dirstate-v2 | default-plain-large.all.pbr | 0.1271 -> 0.1218: -0.0052 (0.96)
mozilla-dirstate-v2 | default-plain-small.ignored-unknown.pbr | 0.1225 -> 0.1202: -0.0022 (0.98)
mozilla-dirstate-v2 | default-plain-small.ignored.pbr | 0.0510 -> 0.0418: -0.0092 (0.82)
mozilla-dirstate-v2 | default-plain-small.no-iu.pbr | 0.0480 -> 0.0394: -0.0086 (0.82)
netbeans-dirstate-v1 | default-plain-clean.no-iu.pbr | 0.1442 -> 0.1422: -0.0020 (0.99)
netbeans-dirstate-v2 | default-plain-clean.no-iu.pbr | 0.0325 -> 0.0282: -0.0043 (0.87)
```
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D12175
#require test-repo
$ . "$TESTDIR/helpers-testrepo.sh"
$ cat <<'EOF' > scanhelptopics.py
> from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function
> import re
> import sys
> if sys.platform == "win32":
> import msvcrt
> import os
> msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
> stdout = getattr(sys.stdout, 'buffer', sys.stdout)
> topics = set()
> topicre = re.compile(br':hg:`help ([a-z0-9\-.]+)`')
> for fname in sys.argv:
> with open(fname, 'rb') as f:
> topics.update(m.group(1) for m in topicre.finditer(f.read()))
> for s in sorted(topics):
> stdout.write(b'%s\n' % s)
> EOF
$ cd "$TESTDIR"/..
Check if ":hg:`help TOPIC`" is valid:
(use "xargs -n1 -t" to see which help commands are executed)
$ testrepohg files 'glob:{hgdemandimport,hgext,mercurial}/**/*.py' \
> | sed 's|\\|/|g' \
> | xargs "$PYTHON" "$TESTTMP/scanhelptopics.py" \
> | xargs -n1 hg help --config extensions.phabricator= > /dev/null