bpo-31179: Make dict.copy() up to 5.5 times faster. (#3067)

Lib/test/test_dict.py

@@ -271,11 +271,57 @@ class DictTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(baddict3.fromkeys({"a", "b", "c"}), res)
 
     def test_copy(self):
-        d = {1:1, 2:2, 3:3}
-        self.assertEqual(d.copy(), {1:1, 2:2, 3:3})
+        d = {1: 1, 2: 2, 3: 3}
+        self.assertIsNot(d.copy(), d)
+        self.assertEqual(d.copy(), d)
+        self.assertEqual(d.copy(), {1: 1, 2: 2, 3: 3})
+
+        copy = d.copy()
+        d[4] = 4
+        self.assertNotEqual(copy, d)
+
         self.assertEqual({}.copy(), {})
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, d.copy, None)
 
+    def test_copy_fuzz(self):
+        for dict_size in [10, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000]:
+            dict_size = random.randrange(
+                dict_size // 2, dict_size + dict_size // 2)
+            with self.subTest(dict_size=dict_size):
+                d = {}
+                for i in range(dict_size):
+                    d[i] = i
+
+                d2 = d.copy()
+                self.assertIsNot(d2, d)
+                self.assertEqual(d, d2)
+                d2['key'] = 'value'
+                self.assertNotEqual(d, d2)
+                self.assertEqual(len(d2), len(d) + 1)
+
+    def test_copy_maintains_tracking(self):
+        class A:
+            pass
+
+        key = A()
+
+        for d in ({}, {'a': 1}, {key: 'val'}):
+            d2 = d.copy()
+            self.assertEqual(gc.is_tracked(d), gc.is_tracked(d2))
+
+    def test_copy_noncompact(self):
+        # Dicts don't compact themselves on del/pop operations.
+        # Copy will use a slow merging strategy that produces
+        # a compacted copy when roughly 33% of dict is a non-used
+        # keys-space (to optimize memory footprint).
+        # In this test we want to hit the slow/compacting
+        # branch of dict.copy() and make sure it works OK.
+        d = {k: k for k in range(1000)}
+        for k in range(950):
+            del d[k]
+        d2 = d.copy()
+        self.assertEqual(d2, d)
+
     def test_get(self):
         d = {}
         self.assertIs(d.get('c'), None)

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-08-10-17-32-48.bpo-31179.XcgLYI.rst

+Make dict.copy() up to 5.5 times faster.

Objects/dictobject.c

@@ -615,6 +615,52 @@ new_dict_with_shared_keys(PyDictKeysObject *keys)
     return new_dict(keys, values);
 }
 
+
+static PyObject *
+clone_combined_dict(PyDictObject *orig)
+{
+    assert(PyDict_CheckExact(orig));
+    assert(orig->ma_values == NULL);
+    assert(orig->ma_keys->dk_refcnt == 1);
+
+    Py_ssize_t keys_size = _PyDict_KeysSize(orig->ma_keys);
+    PyDictKeysObject *keys = PyObject_Malloc(keys_size);
+    if (keys == NULL) {
+        PyErr_NoMemory();
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    memcpy(keys, orig->ma_keys, keys_size);
+
+    /* After copying key/value pairs, we need to incref all
+       keys and values and they are about to be co-owned by a
+       new dict object. */
+    PyDictKeyEntry *ep0 = DK_ENTRIES(keys);
+    Py_ssize_t n = keys->dk_nentries;
+    for (Py_ssize_t i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+        PyDictKeyEntry *entry = &ep0[i];
+        PyObject *value = entry->me_value;
+        if (value != NULL) {
+            Py_INCREF(value);
+            Py_INCREF(entry->me_key);
+        }
+    }
+
+    PyDictObject *new = (PyDictObject *)new_dict(keys, NULL);
+    if (new == NULL) {
+        /* In case of an error, `new_dict()` takes care of
+           cleaning up `keys`. */
+        return NULL;
+    }
+    new->ma_used = orig->ma_used;
+    assert(_PyDict_CheckConsistency(new));
+    if (_PyObject_GC_IS_TRACKED(orig)) {
+        /* Maintain tracking. */
+        _PyObject_GC_TRACK(new);
+    }
+    return (PyObject *)new;
+}
+
 PyObject *
 PyDict_New(void)
 {
@@ -2484,7 +2530,13 @@ PyDict_Copy(PyObject *o)
         PyErr_BadInternalCall();
         return NULL;
     }
+
     mp = (PyDictObject *)o;
+    if (mp->ma_used == 0) {
+        /* The dict is empty; just return a new dict. */
+        return PyDict_New();
+    }
+
     if (_PyDict_HasSplitTable(mp)) {
         PyDictObject *split_copy;
         Py_ssize_t size = USABLE_FRACTION(DK_SIZE(mp->ma_keys));
@@ -2510,6 +2562,27 @@ PyDict_Copy(PyObject *o)
             _PyObject_GC_TRACK(split_copy);
         return (PyObject *)split_copy;
     }
+
+    if (PyDict_CheckExact(mp) && mp->ma_values == NULL &&
+            (mp->ma_used >= (mp->ma_keys->dk_nentries * 2) / 3))
+    {
+        /* Use fast-copy if:
+
+           (1) 'mp' is an instance of a subclassed dict; and
+
+           (2) 'mp' is not a split-dict; and
+
+           (3) if 'mp' is non-compact ('del' operation does not resize dicts),
+               do fast-copy only if it has at most 1/3 non-used keys.
+
+           The last condition (3) is important to guard against a pathalogical
+           case when a large dict is almost emptied with multiple del/pop
+           operations and copied after that.  In cases like this, we defer to
+           PyDict_Merge, which produces a compacted copy.
+        */
+        return clone_combined_dict(mp);
+    }
+
     copy = PyDict_New();
     if (copy == NULL)
         return NULL;