Merged revisions 58886-58929 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r58892 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-11-06 15:32:56 -0800 (Tue, 06 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Add missing "return NULL" in overflow check in PyObject_Repr().
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  r58893 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-06 17:13:09 -0800 (Tue, 06 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Fix marshal's incorrect handling of subclasses of builtin types (backport candidate).
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  r58895 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-06 18:26:17 -0800 (Tue, 06 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Optimize dict.fromkeys() with dict inputs.  Useful for resetting bag/muliset counts for example.
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  r58896 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-06 18:45:46 -0800 (Tue, 06 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Add build option for faster loop execution.
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  r58900 | nick.coghlan | 2007-11-07 03:57:51 -0800 (Wed, 07 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Add missing NEWS entry
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  r58905 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-07 09:50:54 -0800 (Wed, 07 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Backported fix for bug #1392 from py3k branch r58903.
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  r58906 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-07 10:30:22 -0800 (Wed, 07 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Backport of Guido's review of my patch.
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  r58908 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-07 18:52:43 -0800 (Wed, 07 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Add set.isdisjoint()
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  r58915 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-08 10:47:51 -0800 (Thu, 08 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Reposition the decref (spotted by eagle-eye norwitz).
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  r58920 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-09 04:31:43 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix seealso link to sets docs. Do not merge to Py3k.
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  r58921 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-09 05:08:48 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix misleading example.
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  r58923 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-09 09:33:23 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 3 lines

  Correct a comment about testing methods - nowadays most
  tests don't run directly on import.
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  r58924 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-11-09 14:56:30 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Add Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
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  r58925 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-09 15:14:44 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Optimize common case for dict.fromkeys().
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  r58927 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-09 17:54:03 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Use a freelist to speed-up block allocation and deallocation in collections.deque().
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  r58929 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-11-10 14:12:24 -0800 (Sat, 10 Nov 2007) | 3 lines

  Issue 1416.  Add getter, setter, deleter methods to properties that can be
  used as decorators to create fully-populated properties.
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diff --git a/Modules/_collectionsmodule.c b/Modules/_collectionsmodule.c
index a26b572..85709a9 100644
--- a/Modules/_collectionsmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_collectionsmodule.c
@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@
 	PyObject *data[BLOCKLEN];
 } block;
 
+#define MAXFREEBLOCKS 10
+static int numfreeblocks = 0;
+static block *freeblocks[MAXFREEBLOCKS];
+
 static block *
 newblock(block *leftlink, block *rightlink, int len) {
 	block *b;
@@ -66,16 +70,32 @@
 				"cannot add more blocks to the deque");
 		return NULL;
 	}
-	b = PyMem_Malloc(sizeof(block));
-	if (b == NULL) {
-		PyErr_NoMemory();
-		return NULL;
+	if (numfreeblocks) {
+		numfreeblocks -= 1;
+		b = freeblocks[numfreeblocks];
+	} else {
+		b = PyMem_Malloc(sizeof(block));
+		if (b == NULL) {
+			PyErr_NoMemory();
+			return NULL;
+		}
 	}
 	b->leftlink = leftlink;
 	b->rightlink = rightlink;
 	return b;
 }
 
+void
+freeblock(block *b)
+{
+	if (numfreeblocks < MAXFREEBLOCKS) {
+		freeblocks[numfreeblocks] = b;
+		numfreeblocks++;
+	} else {
+		PyMem_Free(b);
+	}
+}
+
 typedef struct {
 	PyObject_HEAD
 	block *leftblock;
@@ -161,7 +181,7 @@
 		} else {
 			prevblock = deque->rightblock->leftlink;
 			assert(deque->leftblock != deque->rightblock);
-			PyMem_Free(deque->rightblock);
+			freeblock(deque->rightblock);
 			prevblock->rightlink = NULL;
 			deque->rightblock = prevblock;
 			deque->rightindex = BLOCKLEN - 1;
@@ -198,7 +218,7 @@
 		} else {
 			assert(deque->leftblock != deque->rightblock);
 			prevblock = deque->leftblock->rightlink;
-			PyMem_Free(deque->leftblock);
+			freeblock(deque->leftblock);
 			assert(prevblock != NULL);
 			prevblock->leftlink = NULL;
 			deque->leftblock = prevblock;
@@ -559,7 +579,7 @@
 	if (deque->leftblock != NULL) {
 		deque_clear(deque);
 		assert(deque->leftblock != NULL);
-		PyMem_Free(deque->leftblock);
+		freeblock(deque->leftblock);
 	}
 	deque->leftblock = NULL;
 	deque->rightblock = NULL;