# HG changeset patch
# User Brodie Rao <brodie@sf.io>
# Date 2013-11-17 23:04:28
# Node ID 74aea4be8e780566eb16977d240608b50200814e
# Parent  c5f0574034ef3304b4834312f1e651f321d0516a

perf: add perfmoonwalk command to walk the changelog backwards

This lets us test the effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of the revlog chunk
cache when walking revlogs backwards.

diff --git a/contrib/perf.py b/contrib/perf.py
--- a/contrib/perf.py
+++ b/contrib/perf.py
@@ -243,6 +243,18 @@ def perflog(ui, repo, **opts):
                                copies=opts.get('rename')))
     ui.popbuffer()
 
+@command('perfmoonwalk')
+def perfmoonwalk(ui, repo):
+    """benchmark walking the changelog backwards
+
+    This also loads the changelog data for each revision in the changelog.
+    """
+    def moonwalk():
+        for i in xrange(len(repo), -1, -1):
+            ctx = repo[i]
+            ctx.branch() # read changelog data (in addition to the index)
+    timer(moonwalk)
+
 @command('perftemplating')
 def perftemplating(ui, repo):
     ui.pushbuffer()