# HG changeset patch
# User Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com>
# Date 2016-08-25 03:18:58
# Node ID 60a66c79125fd87f71f920d47e452fc402a41e86
# Parent  d81fe5af92b810f07c61575a0675a00b47724e5f

revlog: document high frequency of code execution

Recording my notes while working on performance optimization.

diff --git a/mercurial/revlog.py b/mercurial/revlog.py
--- a/mercurial/revlog.py
+++ b/mercurial/revlog.py
@@ -1471,6 +1471,10 @@ class revlog(object):
         # should we try to build a delta?
         if prev != nullrev:
             tested = set()
+            # This condition is true most of the time when processing
+            # changegroup data into a generaldelta repo. The only time it
+            # isn't true is if this is the first revision in a delta chain
+            # or if ``format.generaldelta=true`` disabled ``lazydeltabase``.
             if cachedelta and self._generaldelta and self._lazydeltabase:
                 # Assume what we received from the server is a good choice
                 # build delta will reuse the cache