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merge: perform background file closing in batchget As 2fdbf22a1b63 demonstrated with stream clones, closing files on background threads on Windows can yield a significant speedup because closing files that have been created/appended to is slow on Windows/NTFS. Working directory updates can write thousands of files. Therefore it is susceptible to excessive slowness on Windows due to slow file closes. This patch enables background file closing when performing working directory file writes. The impact when performing an `hg up tip` on mozilla-central (136,357 files) from an empty working directory is significant: Before: 535s (8:55) After: 133s (2:13) Delta: -402s (6:42) That's a 4x speedup! By comparison, that same machine can perform the same operation in ~15s on Linux. So Windows went from ~35x to ~9x slower. Not bad but there's still work to do. As a reminder, background file closing is only activated on Windows because it is only beneficial on that platform. So this patch shouldn't change non-Windows behavior at all. It's worth noting that non-Windows systems perform working directory updates with multiple processes. Unfortunately, worker.py doesn't yet support Windows. So, there is still plenty of room for making working directory updates faster on Windows. Even if multiple processes are used on Windows, I believe background file closing will still provide a benefit, as individual processes will still be slowed down by the file close bottleneck (assuming the I/O system isn't saturated).
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Mercurial for Plan 9 from Bell Labs
===================================

This directory contains support for Mercurial on Plan 9 from Bell Labs
platforms. It is assumed that the version of Python running on these
systems supports the ANSI/POSIX Environment (APE). At the time of this
writing, the bichued/python port is the most commonly installed version
of Python on these platforms. If a native port of Python is ever made,
some minor modification will need to be made to support some of the more
esoteric requirements of the platform rather than those currently made
(cf. posix.py).

By default, installations will have the factotum extension enabled; this
extension permits factotum(4) to act as an authentication agent for
HTTP repositories. Additionally, an extdiff command named 9diff is
enabled which generates diff(1) compatible output suitable for use with
the plumber(4).

Commit messages are plumbed using E if no editor is defined; users must
update the plumbed file to continue, otherwise the hg process must be
interrupted.

Some work remains with regard to documentation. Section 5 manual page
references for hgignore and hgrc need to be re-numbered to section 6 (file
formats) and a new man page writer should be written to support the
Plan 9 man macro set. Until these issues can be resolved, manual pages
are elided from the installation.

Basic install:

% mk install # do a system-wide install
% hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
% hg # see help

A proto(2) file is included in this directory as an example of how a
binary distribution could be packaged, ostensibly with contrib(1).

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.