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cleanup: use the deque type where appropriate

There have been quite a few places where we pop elements off the
front of a list.  This can turn O(n) algorithms into something more
like O(n**2).  Python has provided a deque type that can do this
efficiently since at least 2.4.

As an example of the difference a deque can make, it improves
perfancestors performance on a Linux repo from 0.50 seconds to 0.36.

Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install:

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing:

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See http://mercurial.selenic.com/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.