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repo: avoid copying/updating a dict on every `repo.__getitem__`
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Authored by spectral on Sep 15 2020, 6:48 PM.

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Summary

This has some mild performance benefits. I'm looking into a pathological case
where one of our hg log invocations takes several seconds, and according to
hyperfine this reduces the wall time of the entire operation (running in chg)
from:

Time (mean ± σ):      7.390 s ±  0.106 s    [User: 7.058 s, System: 0.271 s]

Range (min … max):    7.300 s …  7.625 s

to:

Time (mean ± σ):      7.046 s ±  0.091 s    [User: 6.714 s, System: 0.279 s]

Range (min … max):    6.916 s …  7.169 s

Note: the log command is slow due to an issue in our custom stuff executing
repo[<arg>] 298,800 times. This performance improvement is likely not
noticeable during normal operation, but I don't feel like it's making the code
more difficult to understand, and every small bit helps.

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