cext: fix memory leak in phases computation Without this a buffer whose size in bytes is the number of changesets in the repository is leaked each time the repository is opened and changeset phases are computed. Impact: the current code in hgwebdir creates a new `localrepository` instance for each HTTP request. Since any pull or push is made of several requests, a team of 100 people can easily produce thousands of such requests per day. Being a low-level malloc, this leak can't be seen with the gc module and tools relying on that, but was spotted by valgrind immediately. Reproduction ------------ for i in range(cl_args.iterations): repo = hg.repository(baseui, repo_path) rev = repo.revs(rev).first() ctx = repo[rev] del ctx del repo # avoid any pollution by other type of leak # (that should be fixed in 5.8) repoview._filteredrepotypes.clear() gc.collect() Measurements ------------ Resident Set Size (RSS), taken on a clone of mozilla-central for performance analysis (440 000 changesets). before: 5.8+hg19.5ac0f2a8ba72 1000 iterations: 1606MB 5.8+hg19.5ac0f2a8ba72 10000 iterations: 5723MB after: 5.8+hg20.e2084d39e145 1000 iterations: 555MB 5.8+hg20.e2084d39e145 10000 iterations: 555MB (double checked, not a copy/paste error) (e2084d39e14 is the present changeset, before amendment of the message to add the measurements)

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*.tmp
*.orig
*.rej
*~
*.mergebackup
*.o
*.so
*.dll
*.exe
*.pyd
*.pyc
*.pyo
*$py.class
*.swp
*.prof
*.zip
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tests/artifacts/cache/big-file-churn.hg
tests/.coverage*
tests/.testtimes*
tests/.hypothesis
tests/hypothesis-generated
tests/annotated
tests/exceptions
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doc/*.[0-9].gendoc.txt
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.DS_Store
tags
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.vscode/*
.idea/*
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.pytype/*
.mypy_cache
i18n/hg.pot
locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/hg.mo
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rust/target/
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# Generated wheels
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