bdiff: improve worst case behavior by 100x. on 5.8MB (244.000 lines) text file with similar lines, hash before this change made diff against empty file take 75 seconds. this change improves performance to 0.6 seconds. result is that clone of smallish repo (137MB) with some files like this takes 1 minute instead of 10 minutes. common case of diff is 10% slower now, probably because of worse cache locality. but diff does not affect overall performance in common case (less than 1% of runtime is in diff when it is working ok), so this tradeoff looks good.

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# An example CGI script to use hgweb, edit as necessary

import cgitb, os, sys
cgitb.enable()

# sys.path.insert(0, "/path/to/python/lib") # if not a system-wide install
from mercurial.hgweb.hgweb_mod import hgweb
from mercurial.hgweb.request import wsgiapplication
import mercurial.hgweb.wsgicgi as wsgicgi

def make_web_app():
    return hgweb("/path/to/repo", "repository name")

wsgicgi.launch(wsgiapplication(make_web_app))