diffcore-rename: no point trying to find a match better than exact
diffcore_rename() had some code to avoid having destination paths that
already had an exact rename detected from being re-checked for other
renames. Source paths, however, were re-checked because we wanted to
allow the possibility of detecting copies. But if copy detection isn't
turned on, then this merely amounts to attempting to find a
better-than-exact match, which naturally ends up being an expensive
no-op. In particular, copy detection is never turned on by the merge
machinery.
For the testcases mentioned in commit
557ac0350d ("merge-ort: begin
performance work; instrument with trace2_region_* calls", 2020-10-28),
this change improves the performance as follows:
Before After
no-renames: 14.263 s ± 0.053 s 14.119 s ± 0.101 s
mega-renames: 5504.231 s ± 5.150 s 1802.044 s ± 0.828 s
just-one-mega: 158.534 s ± 0.498 s 51.391 s ± 0.028 s
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>