diff --git a/Lib/test/test_deque.py b/Lib/test/test_deque.py
index 595a0c4..98b203e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_deque.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_deque.py
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@
 
     @test_support.cpython_only
     def test_sizeof(self):
-        BLOCKLEN = 62
+        BLOCKLEN = 64
         basesize = test_support.calcobjsize('2P4PlP')
         blocksize = struct.calcsize('2P%dP' % BLOCKLEN)
         self.assertEqual(object.__sizeof__(deque()), basesize)
diff --git a/Modules/_collectionsmodule.c b/Modules/_collectionsmodule.c
index 371631c..8a43d9a 100644
--- a/Modules/_collectionsmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_collectionsmodule.c
@@ -8,12 +8,13 @@
 */
 
 /* The block length may be set to any number over 1.  Larger numbers
- * reduce the number of calls to the memory allocator but take more
- * memory.  Ideally, BLOCKLEN should be set with an eye to the
- * length of a cache line.
+ * reduce the number of calls to the memory allocator, give faster
+ * indexing and rotation, and reduce the link::data overhead ratio.
+ * Ideally, the block length should be a power-of-two for faster
+ * division/modulo computations during indexing.
  */
 
-#define BLOCKLEN 62
+#define BLOCKLEN 64
 #define CENTER ((BLOCKLEN - 1) / 2)
 
 /* A `dequeobject` is composed of a doubly-linked list of `block` nodes.
@@ -58,13 +59,8 @@
 static block *
 newblock(block *leftlink, block *rightlink, Py_ssize_t len) {
     block *b;
-    /* To prevent len from overflowing PY_SSIZE_T_MAX on 64-bit machines, we
-     * refuse to allocate new blocks if the current len is dangerously
-     * close.  There is some extra margin to prevent spurious arithmetic
-     * overflows at various places.  The following check ensures that
-     * the blocks allocated to the deque, in the worst case, can only
-     * have PY_SSIZE_T_MAX-2 entries in total.
-     */
+    /* To prevent len from overflowing PY_SSIZE_T_MAX on 32-bit machines, we
+     * refuse to allocate new blocks if the current len is nearing overflow. */
     if (len >= PY_SSIZE_T_MAX - 2*BLOCKLEN) {
         PyErr_SetString(PyExc_OverflowError,
                         "cannot add more blocks to the deque");