From 376ae332643a771e61f78e892c0b5771e83c3bf9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eddie Hebert <ehebert@quantopian.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 18:55:07 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] PERF: Remove deepcopy from EventWindow ticks.

The deepcopy of events into the EventWindow's ticks was causing
a significant increase in memory consumption, e.g. an algorithm with
almost 200 sids and 14 vwaps removing the deepcopy reduces the amount
of memory consumed by about 40%.

The downside is that if an event's properties are changed, which is
not advised, later on, then the signal derived from vwap etc.
may be changed.
---
 zipline/transforms/utils.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/zipline/transforms/utils.py b/zipline/transforms/utils.py
index 892c6222..e2687d7c 100644
--- a/zipline/transforms/utils.py
+++ b/zipline/transforms/utils.py
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ import logbook
 
 from numbers import Integral
 
-from copy import deepcopy
 from datetime import datetime
 from collections import deque
 from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
@@ -216,7 +215,7 @@ class EventWindow(object):
 
         self.assert_well_formed(event)
         # Add new event and increment totals.
-        self.ticks.append(deepcopy(event))
+        self.ticks.append(event)
 
         # Subclasses should override handle_add to define behavior for
         # adding new ticks.