Agreed, this LGTM. Yuya? I know you've been good at spotting issues in this 
area that I miss.

> On Jun 9, 2020, at 07:21, Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.da...@ens-lyon.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> Sigh, this seems like a good enough fix for now. We can rewrite the UI layer 
> in rust later ;-)
> 
> On 6/7/20 12:55 AM, Manuel Jacob wrote:
>> # HG changeset patch
>> # User Manuel Jacob <m...@manueljacob.de>
>> # Date 1591333053 -7200
>> #      Fri Jun 05 06:57:33 2020 +0200
>> # Branch stable
>> # Node ID d1754bf05591d2aee0f5f9dec185faf912a21190
>> # Parent  1f114c797961733ea03d0de88390f9555a7edef4
>> # EXP-Topic fix_block-buffered_stdout
>> py3: stop using block-buffered stdout to TTY on Python 3
>> The previous code (added in 227ba1afcb65) incorrectly assumed that
>> sys.stdout.buffer is line-buffered. However the interpreter initializes it
>> with a block-buffered stream or an unbuffered stream (when the -u option or
>> the PYTHONUNBUFFERED environment variable is set), never with a line-buffered
>> stream.
>> To see the difference with the hg command, you need to do something slow, 
>> e.g.
>> `hg pull https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg`. On Python 3 on Linux, 
>> without
>> this patch, all output is printed right before the command ends. With this
>> patch, output is printed almost immediately.
>> I did some quick and dirty benchmarking, printing on my terminal.
>> Unfavorable case:
>> * for 100 times:
>>   * for 1000 times:
>>     * call `ui.write(b'x')`
>>   * call `ui.write(b'\n')`
>> * ui.flush()
>> Results:
>> CPython 2.7 is unaffected (line-buffered): wall 0.231795 comb 0.230000 user 
>> 0.230000 sys 0.000000
>> CPython 3.8 before patch (block-buffered): wall 0.190882 comb 0.190000 user 
>> 0.190000 sys 0.000000
>> CPython 3.8 after patch (unbuffered):      wall 0.654466 comb 0.650000 user 
>> 0.480000 sys 0.170000
>> CPython 3.8 hand-rolled line-buffered [*]: wall 0.218919 comb 0.220000 user 
>> 0.220000 sys 0.000000
>> Favorable case:
>> * for 100000 times:
>>   * call `ui.write(b'Testing write performance\n')`
>> Results:
>> CPython 2.7 is unaffected (line-buffered): wall 0.717060 comb 0.710000 user 
>> 0.510000 sys 0.200000
>> CPython 3.8 before patch (block-buffered): wall 0.255527 comb 0.260000 user 
>> 0.180000 sys 0.080000
>> CPython 3.8 after patch (unbuffered):      wall 0.616500 comb 0.620000 user 
>> 0.450000 sys 0.170000
>> CPython 3.8 hand-rolled line-buffered [*]: wall 0.811805 comb 0.810000 user 
>> 0.570000 sys 0.240000
>> [*] For this, I implemented a simplified version of what is suggested in the
>> TODO: stdout was set to block-buffered and ui.write() flushed the stream if
>> the output contains a newline character.
>> diff -r 1f114c797961 -r d1754bf05591 mercurial/utils/procutil.py
>> --- a/mercurial/utils/procutil.py    Thu Apr 30 00:33:00 2020 -0400
>> +++ b/mercurial/utils/procutil.py    Fri Jun 05 06:57:33 2020 +0200
>> @@ -55,12 +55,20 @@
>>  # on Windows).
>>  # Python 3 rolls its own standard I/O streams.
>>  if isatty(stdout):
>> +    # TODO: Consider mitigating the performance impact of using unbuffered
>> +    # writes on Python 3 and Windows, e.g. by using fully buffered streams 
>> and
>> +    # ensuring on a higher level that lines are flushed.
>>      if pycompat.iswindows:
>>          # Windows doesn't support line buffering
>>          stdout = os.fdopen(stdout.fileno(), 'wb', 0)
>> -    elif not pycompat.ispy3:
>> -        # on Python 3, stdout (sys.stdout.buffer) is already line buffered 
>> and
>> -        # buffering=1 is not handled in binary mode
>> +    elif pycompat.ispy3:
>> +        # Python 3 doesn't support line buffering on binary streams. Use the
>> +        # underlying unbuffered raw stream. If the ``raw`` attribute doesn't
>> +        # exist, stdout is already unbuffered or replaced by a custom 
>> stream.
>> +        # TODO: After Mercurial 5.4, use this code path on Python 3 on 
>> Windows.
>> +        # We shouldn't risk changing working behavior in the stable branch.
>> +        stdout = getattr(stdout, 'raw', stdout)
>> +    else:
>>          stdout = os.fdopen(stdout.fileno(), 'wb', 1)
>>    if pycompat.iswindows:
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