[PATCH 2 of 6] util: drop the py26 garbage collector disabling hack

Matt Harbison mharbison72 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 16 23:05:35 EDT 2017


# HG changeset patch
# User Matt Harbison <matt_harbison at yahoo.com>
# Date 1497655633 14400
#      Fri Jun 16 19:27:13 2017 -0400
# Node ID 1452c47128a707b930bb4cd3cea9e356ea40db39
# Parent  067742482ebea687d10f87d4139193961e293aa9
util: drop the py26 garbage collector disabling hack

This was doing nothing on 2.7+.

diff --git a/mercurial/dirstate.py b/mercurial/dirstate.py
--- a/mercurial/dirstate.py
+++ b/mercurial/dirstate.py
@@ -460,20 +460,7 @@
             # on write.
             self._map = parsers.dict_new_presized(len(st) / 71)
 
-        # Python's garbage collector triggers a GC each time a certain number
-        # of container objects (the number being defined by
-        # gc.get_threshold()) are allocated. parse_dirstate creates a tuple
-        # for each file in the dirstate. The C version then immediately marks
-        # them as not to be tracked by the collector. However, this has no
-        # effect on when GCs are triggered, only on what objects the GC looks
-        # into. This means that O(number of files) GCs are unavoidable.
-        # Depending on when in the process's lifetime the dirstate is parsed,
-        # this can get very expensive. As a workaround, disable GC while
-        # parsing the dirstate.
-        #
-        # (we cannot decorate the function directly since it is in a C module)
-        parse_dirstate = util.nogc(parsers.parse_dirstate)
-        p = parse_dirstate(self._map, self._copymap, st)
+        p = parsers.parse_dirstate(self._map, self._copymap, st)
         if not self._dirtypl:
             self._pl = p
 
diff --git a/mercurial/obsolete.py b/mercurial/obsolete.py
--- a/mercurial/obsolete.py
+++ b/mercurial/obsolete.py
@@ -442,7 +442,6 @@
 def _readmarkerversion(data):
     return _unpack('>B', data[0:1])[0]
 
- at util.nogc
 def _readmarkers(data):
     """Read and enumerate markers from raw data"""
     diskversion = _readmarkerversion(data)
@@ -506,18 +505,15 @@
         """The flags field of the marker"""
         return self._data[2]
 
- at util.nogc
 def _addsuccessors(successors, markers):
     for mark in markers:
         successors.setdefault(mark[0], set()).add(mark)
 
- at util.nogc
 def _addprecursors(precursors, markers):
     for mark in markers:
         for suc in mark[1]:
             precursors.setdefault(suc, set()).add(mark)
 
- at util.nogc
 def _addchildren(children, markers):
     for mark in markers:
         parents = mark[5]
diff --git a/mercurial/util.py b/mercurial/util.py
--- a/mercurial/util.py
+++ b/mercurial/util.py
@@ -903,30 +903,6 @@
 def never(fn):
     return False
 
-def nogc(func):
-    """disable garbage collector
-
-    Python's garbage collector triggers a GC each time a certain number of
-    container objects (the number being defined by gc.get_threshold()) are
-    allocated even when marked not to be tracked by the collector. Tracking has
-    no effect on when GCs are triggered, only on what objects the GC looks
-    into. As a workaround, disable GC while building complex (huge)
-    containers.
-
-    This garbage collector issue have been fixed in 2.7.
-    """
-    if sys.version_info >= (2, 7):
-        return func
-    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
-        gcenabled = gc.isenabled()
-        gc.disable()
-        try:
-            return func(*args, **kwargs)
-        finally:
-            if gcenabled:
-                gc.enable()
-    return wrapper
-
 def pathto(root, n1, n2):
     '''return the relative path from one place to another.
     root should use os.sep to separate directories


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