Python has its own memory allocation APIs. For allocations
<= 512 bytes, it allocates memory from arenas. This means that
average small allocations don't call the system allocator, which
makes them faster. Also, arena allocations cut down on memory
fragmentation, which can matter for performance in long-running
processes.
Another advantage of using the Python memory allocator is that
allocations are tracked by Python. This is a bigger deal in
Python 3, as modern versions of Python have some decent built-in
tools for examining memory usage, leaks, etc.
This patch converts a trivial malloc() + free() in the bdiff code
to use the Python allocator APIs. Since the object being
operated on is a line, chances are it will use an arena. So,
this could have a net positive impact on performance (although
I didn't measure it).
The patch lingered a bit too long in my local clone and I messed up when I
updated the version number. Since nobody caught it, I'm fixing the version after
the fact.
Changeset 3b9cdb72931f removed the mutable default value, but did not explicitly
tested for None. Such implicit checking can introduce semantic and performance
issue. We move to an explicit check for None as recommended by PEP8:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#programming-recommendations
The two function takes the very same arguments. We make this clearer and less
error prone by dispatching on the function only and having a single call point
in the code.
906be86990 recently changed to switch from:
self._rbcrevs[rbcrevidx:rbcrevidx + _rbcrecsize] = rec
to
pack_into(_rbcrecfmt, self._rbcrevs, rbcrevidx, node, branchidx)
This causes an exception if rbcrevidx is -1 (i.e. the nullrev). The old code
handled this because python handles out of bound sets to arrays gracefully. The
new code throws because the self._rbcrevs buffer isn't long enough to write 8
bytes to. Normally it would've been resized by the immediately preceding line,
but because the 0 length buffer is greater than the idx (-1) times the size, no
resize happens.
Setting the branch for the nullrev doesn't make sense anyway, so let's skip it.
This was caught by external tests in the Facebook extensions repo, but I've
added a test here that catches the issue.
string_escape doesn't exist on Python 3, but fortunately the undocumented
codecs.escape_encode() function exists on CPython 2.6, 2.7, 3.5 and PyPy 5.6.
So let's use it for now.
http://stackoverflow.com/a/23151714
Since extras may contain blob, the default template escapes its values:
'extra': '{key}={value|stringescape}'
join() should follow the output style of the default template.
.next attribute does not exist on Python 3. As this function seems to really
care about the overhead of the Python interpreter, I follow the way of micro
optimization.
Currently hg.exe will only try to load python27.dll from hg-python
subdir if PYTHONHOME environment variable is not set. I think that
it is better to check whether 'hg-python' subdir exists and load
python from it in that case, regardless of environment. This allows
for reliable approach of distributing Mercurial with its own Python.
We did such splits for other tools already. The 'test-check-*.t' performs the
check of the source code while the regular tests verifies the tools works.
One of the benefit is that is provides a simple file to reuse in third party
extensions.
This allows us to handle bytes in mostly the same manner as Python 2 str,
so we can get rid of ugly s[i:i + 1] hacks:
s = bytestr(s)
while i < len(s):
c = s[i]
...
This is the simpler version of the previous RFC patch which tried to preserve
the bytestr type if possible. New version simply drops the bytestr wrapping
so we aren't likely to pass a bytestr to a function that expects Python 3
bytes.
Changeset c832083e5671 removed the mutable default value, but did not explicitly
tested for None. Such implicit testing can introduce semantic and performance
issue. We move to an explicit testing for None as recommended by PEP8:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#programming-recommendations
Changeset 3495cae22a41 removed the mutable default value, but did not explicitly
tested for None. Such implicit testing can introduce semantic and performance
issue. We move to an explicit testing for None as recommended by PEP8:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#programming-recommendations
Changeset 11e325d162fe removed the mutable default value, but did not explicitly
tested for None. Such implicit testing can introduce semantic and performance
issue. We move to an explicit testing for None as recommended by PEP8:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#programming-recommendations
Changeset 45c7a22dbdc0 removed the mutable default value, but did not explicitly
tested for None. Such implicit testing can introduce semantic and performance
issue. We move to an explicit testing for None as recommended by PEP8:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#programming-recommendations
Changeset ba7f2a1cc2d2 removed the mutable default value, but did not explicitly
tested for None. Such implicit testing can introduce semantic and performance
issue. We move to an explicit testing for None as recommended by PEP8:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#programming-recommendations
Changeset 97936471dc8d removed the mutable default value, but did not explicitly
tested for None. Such implicit testing can introduce semantic and performance
issue. We move to an explicit testing for None as recommended by PEP8:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#programming-recommendations
Changeset 33b71926122d removed the mutable default value, but did not explicitly
tested for None. Such implicit checking can introduce semantic and performance
issue. We move to an explicit check for None as recommended by PEP8:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#programming-recommendations
This should catch the bug fixed by "worker: ignore meaningless exit status
indication returned by os.waitpid()."
Before, worker.py was untested since test repositories are relatively small.
Default-push has been deprecated in favour of default:pushurl. But "hg clone" still
inserts this in every hgrc file it creates. This patch updates the message by replacing
default-push with default:pushurl and also makes the necessary changes to test files.
Before this patch, worker implementation assumes that os.waitpid()
with os.WNOHANG returns '(0, 0)' for still running child process. This
is explicitly specified as below in Python API document.
os.WNOHANG
The option for waitpid() to return immediately if no child
process status is available immediately. The function returns
(0, 0) in this case.
On the other hand, POSIX specification doesn't define the "stat_loc"
value returned by waitpid() with WNOHANG for such child process.
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/waitpid.html
CPython implementation for os.waitpid() on POSIX doesn't take any care
of this gap, and this may cause unexpected "exit status indication"
even on POSIX conformance platform.
For example, os.waitpid() with os.WNOHANG returns non-zero "exit
status indication" on FreeBSD. This implies os.kill() with own pid or
sys.exit() with non-zero exit code, even if no child process fails.
To ignore meaningless exit status indication returned by os.waitpid(),
this patch skips subsequent steps forcibly, if os.waitpid() returns 0
as pid.
This patch also arranges examination of 'p' value for readability.
FYI, there are some issues below about this behavior reported for
CPython.
https://bugs.python.org/issue21791https://bugs.python.org/issue27808
