obscache: document a possible way forward to skipping obsstore parsing
We document a possibly viable idea for updating the cache on new revs without
having to fully parse the obsstore.
--- a/hgext3rd/evolve/obscache.py Wed May 03 23:07:01 2017 +0200
+++ b/hgext3rd/evolve/obscache.py Thu May 04 14:02:30 2017 +0200
@@ -305,6 +305,13 @@
imagine using various optimisation (eg: another cache, network
exchange, etc).
+ A possible approach to this is to build a set of all node used as
+ precursors in `obsstore._obscandidate`. If markers are not loaded yet,
+ we could initialize it by doing a quick scan through the obsstore data
+ and filling a (pre-sized) set. Doing so would be much faster than
+ parsing all the obsmarkers since we would access less data, not create
+ any object beside the nodes and not have to decode any complex data.
+
For now we stick to the simpler approach of paying the
performance cost on new changesets.
"""