debug-diff-algorithms: Real world performance test implementations

debug-diff-algorithms: Real world performance test implementations

When working on a difference algorithm's implementation, its generally
more important to care about how it behaves on real-world inputs than
it does on fake inputs created for unit test cases.  Run each
implementation against a number of real-world repositories, looking at
changes between files in each commit.  This gives a better picture of
how a particular algorithm performs.

This test suite run against JGit and linux-2.6 with the current
available algorithms shows HistogramDiff always out-performs
MyersDiff, and by a wide margin on the linux-2.6 sources.  As
HistogramDiff has similar output properties as PatienceDiff, the
resulting edits are probably also more human-readable.  These test
results show that HistogramDiff is a good choice for the default
implementation, and also show that PatienceDiff isn't worth keeping.

  jgit: start at baa83ae
            2686 files,          760 commits
    N=         3 min lines,     3016 max lines
  Algorithm                     Time(ns) (  Time(ns) on   Time(ns) on )
                                         (          N=3        N=3016 )
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------
  histogram_myers              314652100 (         3900        298100 )
  histogram                    315973000 (         3800        302100 )
  patience                     774724900 (         4500        347900 )
  patience_histogram_myers     786332800 (         3700        351200 )
  myers                        819359300 (         4100        379100 )
  patience_myers               843416700 (         3800        348000 )

  linux-2.6.git: start at 85a3318
            4001 files,         2680 commits
    N=         2 min lines,    39098 max lines
  Algorithm                     Time(ns) (  Time(ns) on   Time(ns) on )
                                         (          N=2       N=39098 )
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------
  histogram_myers             1229870000 (         5900       2642700 )
  histogram                   1235654100 (         6000       2695400 )
  patience                    3856546000 (         5900       2627700 )
  patience_histogram_myers    3866728100 (         7000       2624000 )
  patience_myers              4004875300 (         8000       2651700 )
  myers                       9794679000 (         7200       2716200 )

Change-Id: I2502684d31f7851e720356820d04d8cf767f7229
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>