Refine the update heuristic to improve responsiveness a bit.

The previous commit improved performance a lot but also meant that
we waited longer to see something drawn.  This refines the heuristics
for when to call update so that (1) when we have finished processing
a bufferfull of information from git-rev-list, we call update if
enough time has elapsed, regardless of how many commits we've drawn,
and (2) the number of commits drawn between updates scales with the
total number of commits drawn: 1 for 1-99 commits, 10 for 100-9999
commits, or 100 for >= 10000 commits.

diff --git a/gitk b/gitk
index 6a6d4b2..6dc4b24 100755 (executable)
--- a/gitk
+++ b/gitk
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ proc getcommits {rargs} {
     set phase getcommits
     set startmsecs [clock clicks -milliseconds]
     set nextupdate [expr $startmsecs + 100]
-    set ncmupdate 0
+    set ncmupdate 1
     if [catch {
        set parse_args [concat --default HEAD $rargs]
        set parsed_args [split [eval exec git-rev-parse $parse_args] "\n"]
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ proc getcommitlines {commfd}  {
     global commits parents cdate children nchildren
     global commitlisted phase commitinfo nextupdate
     global stopped redisplaying leftover
-    global numcommits ncmupdate
 
     set stuff [read $commfd]
     if {$stuff == {}} {
@@ -110,10 +109,8 @@ to allow selection of commits to be displayed.)}
        set commitlisted($id) 1
        parsecommit $id $cmit 1
        drawcommit $id
-       if {[clock clicks -milliseconds] >= $nextupdate
-           && $numcommits >= $ncmupdate + 100} {
-           doupdate
-           set ncmupdate $numcommits
+       if {[clock clicks -milliseconds] >= $nextupdate} {
+           doupdate 1
        }
        while {$redisplaying} {
            set redisplaying 0
@@ -123,10 +120,8 @@ to allow selection of commits to be displayed.)}
                foreach id $commits {
                    drawcommit $id
                    if {$stopped} break
-                   if {[clock clicks -milliseconds] >= $nextupdate
-                       && $numcommits >= $ncmupdate + 100} {
-                       doupdate
-                       set ncmupdate $numcommits
+                   if {[clock clicks -milliseconds] >= $nextupdate} {
+                       doupdate 1
                    }
                }
            }
@@ -134,13 +129,24 @@ to allow selection of commits to be displayed.)}
     }
 }
 
-proc doupdate {} {
-    global commfd nextupdate
+proc doupdate {reading} {
+    global commfd nextupdate numcommits ncmupdate
 
-    incr nextupdate 100
-    fileevent $commfd readable {}
+    if {$reading} {
+       fileevent $commfd readable {}
+    }
     update
-    fileevent $commfd readable [list getcommitlines $commfd]
+    set nextupdate [expr {[clock clicks -milliseconds] + 100}]
+    if {$numcommits < 100} {
+       set ncmupdate [expr {$numcommits + 1}]
+    } elseif {$numcommits < 10000} {
+       set ncmupdate [expr {$numcommits + 10}]
+    } else {
+       set ncmupdate [expr {$numcommits + 100}]
+    }
+    if {$reading} {
+       fileevent $commfd readable [list getcommitlines $commfd]
+    }
 }
 
 proc readcommit {id} {
@@ -1127,8 +1133,7 @@ proc drawcommit {id} {
            }
            if {[clock clicks -milliseconds] >= $nextupdate
                && $numcommits >= $ncmupdate} {
-               doupdate
-               set ncmupdate $numcommits
+               doupdate 1
                if {$stopped} break
            }
        }
@@ -1171,7 +1176,7 @@ proc drawgraph {} {
     if {$startcommits == {}} return
     set startmsecs [clock clicks -milliseconds]
     set nextupdate [expr $startmsecs + 100]
-    set ncmupdate 0
+    set ncmupdate 1
     initgraph
     set todo [lindex $startcommits 0]
     drawrest 0 1
@@ -1210,10 +1215,8 @@ proc drawrest {level startix} {
                drawslants $level
            }
            if {[clock clicks -milliseconds] >= $nextupdate
-               && $numcommits >= $ncmupdate + 100} {
-               update
-               incr nextupdate 100
-               set ncmupdate $numcommits
+               && $numcommits >= $ncmupdate} {
+               doupdate 0
            }
        }
     }