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linelog: optimize replacelines
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Authored by quark on Aug 6 2018, 10:00 PM.

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The optimization to avoid calling annotate inside replacelines is significant
for practical use patterns.

Before this patch:

hg perflinelogedits
! wall 6.778478 comb 6.710000 user 6.700000 sys 0.010000 (best of 3)

After this patch:

hg perflinelogedits
! wall 0.136573 comb 0.140000 user 0.130000 sys 0.010000 (best of 63)

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quark created this revision.Aug 6 2018, 10:00 PM
quark edited the summary of this revision. (Show Details)Aug 6 2018, 10:35 PM
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quark updated this revision to Diff 10067.
durin42 accepted this revision.Aug 9 2018, 1:56 PM
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Thanks for the optimization! I had gotten too worn out tracing things in the original code to figure out how the splicing worked, and I had something that worked so I moved along with it. This makes a lot of sense (possibly just because I'm less tired than I was when I finished understanding linelog the first time.)

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Aug 9 2018, 1:56 PM
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quark added a comment.EditedAug 9 2018, 6:12 PM

To clarify, I do think stateless API is better. It can be done by keeping _lastannotate as a private cache inaccessible from other APIs, move annotateresult to the return value of annotate, then add arev to replacelines to verify the cache. The C code use brev instead of rev as the parameter name for a reason.

The original annotateresult is used as an attempt to reduce C code to be reviewed. Reviewing C code took too long.

The choice of C was because I pursued performance, C is not bad for this particular work (ex. linelog.c has similar LOC), and C is also friendly for the Git community.

To provide more context, mpm commented internally on how the linelog format might be improved. That is to add a LINESPAN instruction replacing a range of continuous LINE instructions. Again, not implemented because of C. But it seems much easier with Python now.