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
$ hg init
$ cat > a <<EOF
> a
> b
> c
> EOF
$ hg ci -Am adda
adding a
$ cat > a <<EOF
> d
> e
> f
> EOF
$ hg ci -m moda
$ hg diff --reverse -r0 -r1
diff -r 2855cdcfcbb7 -r 8e1805a3cf6e a
--- a/a Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/a Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-d
-e
-f
+a
+b
+c
$ cat >> a <<EOF
> g
> h
> EOF
$ hg diff --reverse --nodates
diff -r 2855cdcfcbb7 a
--- a/a
+++ b/a
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
d
e
f
-g
-h
should show removed file 'a' as being added
$ hg revert a
$ hg rm a
$ hg diff --reverse --nodates a
diff -r 2855cdcfcbb7 a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/a
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+d
+e
+f
should show added file 'b' as being removed
$ echo b >> b
$ hg add b
$ hg diff --reverse --nodates b
diff -r 2855cdcfcbb7 b
--- a/b
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,1 +0,0 @@
-b