perf: run the gc before each run
The python garbage collector is a large source of performance troubles, we run
it right before the timed section to reduce the change for the gc to add noise
to the benchmark.
$ hg init repo
$ cd repo
$ echo This is file a1 > a
$ hg add a
$ hg commit -m "commit #0"
$ ls -A
.hg
a
$ echo This is file b1 > b
$ hg add b
$ hg commit -m "commit #1"
$ hg co 0
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
B should disappear
$ ls -A
.hg
a