bisect: avoid copying ancestor list for non-merge commits
During a bisection, hg needs to compute a list of all ancestors for every
candidate commit. This is accomplished via a bottom-up traversal of the set of
candidates, during which each revision's ancestor list is populated using the
ancestor list of its parent(s). Previously, this involved copying the entire
list, which could be very long in if the bisection range was large.
To help improve this, we can observe that each candidate commit is visited
exactly once, at which point its ancestor list is copied into its children's
lists and then dropped. In the case of non-merge commits, a commit's ancestor
list consists exactly of its parent's list plus itself. This means that we can
trivially reuse the parent's existing list for one of its non-merge children,
which avoids copying entirely if that commit is the parent's only child. This
makes bisections over linear ranges of commits much faster.
During some informal testing in the large publicly-available `mozilla-central`
repository, this noticeably sped up bisections over large ranges of history:
Setup:
$ cd mozilla-central
$ hg bisect --reset
$ hg bisect --good 0
$ hg log -r tip -T '{rev}\n'
628417
Test:
$ time hg bisect --bad tip --noupdate
Before:
real 3m35.927s
user 3m35.553s
sys 0m0.319s
After:
real 1m41.142s
user 1m40.810s
sys 0m0.285s
DOCUMENT_ROOT="/var/www/hg"; export DOCUMENT_ROOT
GATEWAY_INTERFACE="CGI/1.1"; export GATEWAY_INTERFACE
HTTP_ACCEPT="text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5"; export HTTP_ACCEPT
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET="ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7"; export HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING="gzip,deflate"; export HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE="en-us,en;q=0.5"; export HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE
HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL="max-age=0"; export HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL
HTTP_CONNECTION="keep-alive"; export HTTP_CONNECTION
HTTP_HOST="hg.omnifarious.org"; export HTTP_HOST
HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE="300"; export HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE
HTTP_USER_AGENT="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060608 Ubuntu/dapper-security Firefox/1.5.0.4"; export HTTP_USER_AGENT
PATH_INFO="/"; export PATH_INFO
PATH_TRANSLATED="/var/www/hg/index.html"; export PATH_TRANSLATED
QUERY_STRING=""; export QUERY_STRING
REMOTE_ADDR="127.0.0.2"; export REMOTE_ADDR
REMOTE_PORT="44703"; export REMOTE_PORT
REQUEST_METHOD="GET"; export REQUEST_METHOD
REQUEST_URI="/test/"; export REQUEST_URI
SCRIPT_FILENAME="/home/hopper/hg_public/test.cgi"; export SCRIPT_FILENAME
SCRIPT_NAME="/test"; export SCRIPT_NAME
SCRIPT_URI="http://hg.omnifarious.org/test/"; export SCRIPT_URI
SCRIPT_URL="/test/"; export SCRIPT_URL
SERVER_ADDR="127.0.0.1"; export SERVER_ADDR
SERVER_ADMIN="eric@localhost"; export SERVER_ADMIN
SERVER_NAME="hg.omnifarious.org"; export SERVER_NAME
SERVER_PORT="80"; export SERVER_PORT
SERVER_PROTOCOL="HTTP/1.1"; export SERVER_PROTOCOL
SERVER_SIGNATURE="<address>Apache/2.0.53 (Fedora) Server at hg.omnifarious.org Port 80</address>"; export SERVER_SIGNATURE
SERVER_SOFTWARE="Apache/2.0.53 (Fedora)"; export SERVER_SOFTWARE