I am debugging a memory issue from yesterday where hg update goes upto taking
22GB of memory on our internal treemanifest repository. This is an interesting
function and I saw memory consumption increasing while this function was
running.
It's sometimes hard to understand a recursive function and also the profile
won't show you actual operations which took time, rather it will show you the
function again and again in profile.
I am yet to notice any memory consumption decrease with this patch, but I
believe this will help like in making this a generator.
room for a follow-up: I'm not sure this needs to be a nested function anymore (it could be a separate method on self)