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[8.2.x] fixtures: fix catastrophic performance problem in reorder_items #12414

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Manual minimal backport from commit e89d23b.

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Manual minimal backport from commit e89d23b.

Fix pytest-dev#12355.

In the issue, it was reported that the `reorder_items` has quadratic (or
worse...) behavior with certain simple parametrizations. After some
debugging I found that the problem happens because the "Fix
items_by_argkey order" loop keeps adding the same item to the deque,
and it reaches epic sizes which causes the slowdown.

I don't claim to understand how the `reorder_items` algorithm works, but
if as far as I understand, if an item already exists in the deque, the
correct thing to do is to move it to the front. Since a deque doesn't
have such an (efficient) operation, this switches to `OrderedDict` which
can efficiently append from both sides, deduplicate and move to front.
@bluetech bluetech merged commit 214d098 into pytest-dev:8.2.x Jun 4, 2024
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