revlog: break up compression of large deltas Python's zlib apparently makes an internal copy of strings passed to compress(). To avoid this, compress strings 1M at a time, then join them at the end if the result would be smaller than the original. For initial commits of large but compressible files, this cuts peak memory usage nearly in half.

% init
% commit
adding base
% qnew mqbase
% qrefresh
% qdiff
diff -r 67e992f2c4f3 base
--- a/base
+++ b/base
@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@ base
-base
+patched
% qdiff dirname
diff -r 67e992f2c4f3 base
--- a/base
+++ b/base
@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@ base
-base
+patched