The setup phase in 't/perf/p3400-rebase.sh' generates 100 commits to
simulate a noisy history. It currently uses a shell loop that invokes
'git add', 'git commit', 'test_seq', and 'sort' in each iteration.
This incurs significant overhead due to repeated process spawning.
Optimize the setup by using 'git fast-import' to generate the commit
history. Additionally, pre-compute the forward and reversed file contents
to avoid repetitive execution of 'seq' and 'sort'.
To ensure the test measures rebase performance against a consistent
object layout (rather than the suboptimal pack/loose objects created
by the raw import), perform a full repack (`git repack -a -d`) at the
end of the setup.
This reduces the setup time significantly while maintaining the validity
of the subsequent performance tests.
Performance enhancement (Average value of 5 tests):
Real Rebase
Before: 29.045s 13.34s
After: 21.989s 12.84s
Measured on Lenovo Yoga 2020, Ubuntu 24.04.
Signed-off-by: Tian Yuchen <a3205153416@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>