reverted copy of cached instance:

CPython

changelog
total_time 39.7253162861
average on req 0.993132907152

changesets
total_time 42.5156304836
average on req 0.425156304836

Total: 546 MB

changelog
total_time 35.5851216316
average on req 0.889628040791

changesets
total_time 30.3608012199
average on req 0.303608012199

Total: 475 MB

rhodecode/lib/base.py

@@ -2,8 +2,6
 
 Provides the BaseController class for subclassing.
 """
-import copy
-
 from pylons import config, tmpl_context as c, request, session
 from pylons.controllers import WSGIController
 from pylons.templating import render_mako as render
@@ -64,9 +62,9 class BaseRepoController(BaseController)
         super(BaseRepoController, self).__before__()
         if c.repo_name:
 
-            r, dbrepo = self.scm_model.get(c.repo_name, retval='repo')
+            c.rhodecode_repo, dbrepo = self.scm_model.get(c.repo_name, retval='repo')
 
-            if r is not None:
+            if c.rhodecode_repo is not None:
                 c.repository_followers = \
                     self.scm_model.get_followers(c.repo_name)
                 c.repository_forks = self.scm_model.get_forks(c.repo_name)
@@ -74,8 +72,3 class BaseRepoController(BaseController)
                 c.repository_followers = 0
                 c.repository_forks = 0
 
-            # Since RhodeCode uses heavy memory caching we make a deepcopy
-            # of object taken from cache. This way we lose reference to cached
-            # instance in memory and keep it relatively small even for
-            # very large number of changesets
-            c.rhodecode_repo = copy.copy(r)