As part of building the branchmap, we loop over revs and call branchmap()
or _branchmap(). Previously, these functions were accessing repo.changelog.
We know from past experience that repo.changelog in loops is bad for
performance.
This commit teaches the branchmap code to pass a changelog instance into
branchmap() and _branchmap() so we don't need to pay this penalty.
On my MBP, this appears to show a speedup on a clone of the
mozilla-unified repo:
$ hg perfbranchmap --clear-revbranch
! base
! wall 21.078160 comb 21.070000 user 20.920000 sys 0.150000 (best of 3)
! wall 20.574682 comb 20.560000 user 20.400000 sys 0.160000 (best of 3)
$ hg perfbranchmap
! base
! wall 4.880413 comb 4.870000 user 4.860000 sys 0.010000 (best of 3)
! wall 4.573968 comb 4.560000 user 4.550000 sys 0.010000 (best of 3)
There is one more call of this function in revset.py:491 which is also inside a for-loop. Doing this same thing there will speed up the branch() revset. If possible, can you have a look before the freeze?