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.
#!/bin/sh
echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRCPATH
echo "mq=" >> $HGRCPATH
hg init a
cd a
echo 'base' > base
hg ci -Ambase -d '1 0'
hg qnew -mmqbase mqbase
hg qrename mqbase renamed
mkdir .hg/patches/foo
hg qrename renamed foo
hg qseries
ls .hg/patches/foo
mkdir .hg/patches/bar
hg qrename foo/renamed bar
hg qseries
ls .hg/patches/bar
hg qrename bar/renamed baz
hg qseries
ls .hg/patches/baz