"A journey to performance: using Rust in Mercurial" - Raphaël Gomès (LCA 2021 Online)

Raphaël Gomès

https://lca2021.linux.org.au/schedule/presentation/49/

Mercurial is a Distributed Version Control System mainly written in Python.
While it is often the VCS of choice for monorepos for its great scalability,
certain parts remain slower than they should be.
Over the past two years, an effort to rewrite parts of the Mercurial core in
Rust has seen multiple significant wins in performance, even compared to C
implementations.

We will go over the different obstacles that Raphaël and his colleagues at
Octobus faced during the rewrite of the ubiquitous `hg status`, and the
solutions they came up with to make this command (and others) a lot faster.
For example, running `hg status` in a Mozilla working copy moved from 1.1s to
0.04s, a ×25 improvement.

Themes covered include:
- Rust and Python interoperability
- Fast (and slow) Rust datastructures
- Fast directory traversal
- Version control internals
- Append-only binary formats
- Mtime caching
- Safe mmap usage in a concurrent context
- Multithreading
- Unix vs MacOS vs Windows issues

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Sun Jan 24 16:40:00 2021 at Rusty R. Hall

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