SDIFF used an algorithm that was O(N) where N is the total number
of elements of all the sets involved in the operation.

The algorithm worked like that:

ALGORITHM 1:

1) For the first set, add all the members to an auxiliary set.
2) For all the other sets, remove all the members of the set from the
auxiliary set.

So it is an O(N) algorithm where N is the total number of elements in
all the sets involved in the diff operation.

Cristobal Viedma suggested to modify the algorithm to the following:

ALGORITHM 2:

1) Iterate all the elements of the first set.
2) For every element, check if the element also exists in all the other
remaining sets.
3) Add the element to the auxiliary set only if it does not exist in any
of the other sets.

The complexity of this algorithm on the worst case is O(N*M) where N is
the size of the first set and M the total number of sets involved in the
operation.

However when there are elements in common, with this algorithm we stop
the computation for a given element as long as we find a duplicated
element into another set.

I (antirez) added an additional step to algorithm 2 to make it faster,
that is to sort the set to subtract from the biggest to the
smallest, so that it is more likely to find a duplicate in a larger sets
that are checked before the smaller ones.

WHAT IS BETTER?

None of course, for instance if the first set is much larger than the
other sets the second algorithm does a lot more work compared to the
first algorithm.

Similarly if the first set is much smaller than the other sets, the
original algorithm will less work.

So this commit makes Redis able to guess the number of operations
required by each algorithm, and select the best at runtime according
to the input received.

However, since the second algorithm has better constant times and can do
less work if there are duplicated elements, an advantage is given to the
second algorithm.

For "CASE 4" (see code) we need to free the element if it's already in
the result dictionary and adding it failed.

SRANDMEMBER called with just the key argument can just return a single
random element from a Redis Set. However many users need to return
multiple unique elements from a Set, this is not a trivial problem to
handle in the client side, and for truly good performance a C
implementation was required.

After many requests for this feature it was finally implemented.

The problem implementing this command is the strategy to follow when
the number of elements the user asks for is near to the number of
elements that are already inside the set. In this case asking random
elements to the dictionary API, and trying to add it to a temporary set,
may result into an extremely poor performance, as most add operations
will be wasted on duplicated elements.

For this reason this implementation uses a different strategy in this
case: the Set is copied, and random elements are returned to reach the
specified count.

The code actually uses 4 different algorithms optimized for the
different cases.

If the count is negative, the command changes behavior and allows for
duplicated elements in the returned subset.

touched key for WATCH refactored into a more general thing that can be used also for the cache system. Some more changes towards diskstore working.

COW friendly versions of SPOP and SRANDMEMBER commands, with some change to the set encoding-agnostic API.

networking related stuff moved into networking.c

moved more code

more work on layout of source code

SDS instantaneuos memory saving. By Pieter and Salvatore at VMware ;)

cleanly compiling again after the first split, now splitting it in more C files

moving more things around... work in progress

split replication code

splitting more

Sets split

Hash split

replication split

even more splitting

more splitting

minor change