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convert: use a collections.deque

This function was doing a list.pop(0) on a list whose length
was the number of revisions to convert. Popping an early element
from long lists is not an efficient operation.

collections.deque supports efficient inserts and pops at both
ends. So we switch to that data structure.

When converting the mozilla-unified repository, which has 445,748
revisions, this change makes the "sorting..." step of
`hg convert --sourcesort` significantly faster:

before: ~59.2s
after:   ~1.3s

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D1934

cHg
===

A fast client for Mercurial command server running on Unix.

Install:

 $ make
 $ make install

Usage:

 $ chg help                 # show help of Mercurial
 $ alias hg=chg             # replace hg command
 $ chg --kill-chg-daemon    # terminate background server

Environment variables:

Although cHg tries to update environment variables, some of them cannot be
changed after spawning the server. The following variables are specially
handled:

 * configuration files are reloaded automatically by default.
 * CHGHG or HG specifies the path to the hg executable spawned as the
   background command server.

The following variables are available for testing:

 * CHGDEBUG enables debug messages.
 * CHGSOCKNAME specifies the socket path of the background cmdserver.
 * CHGTIMEOUT specifies how many seconds chg will wait before giving up
   connecting to a cmdserver. If it is 0, chg will wait forever. Default: 60