Merge recent changes from upstream

Author: huashuai

asv_bench/benchmarks/sparse.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from itertools import repeat
+import itertools
 
 from .pandas_vb_common import *
 import scipy.sparse
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ def time_sparse_from_scipy(self):
         SparseDataFrame(scipy.sparse.rand(1000, 1000, 0.005))
 
     def time_sparse_from_dict(self):
-        SparseDataFrame(dict(zip(range(1000), repeat([0]))))
+        SparseDataFrame(dict(zip(range(1000), itertools.repeat([0]))))
 
 
 class sparse_series_from_coo(object):

asv_bench/benchmarks/timeseries.py

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ def setup(self):
         self.no_freq = self.rng7[:50000].append(self.rng7[50002:])
         self.d_freq = self.rng7[:50000].append(self.rng7[50000:])
 
-        self.rng8 = date_range(start='1/1/1700', freq='B', periods=100000)
+        self.rng8 = date_range(start='1/1/1700', freq='B', periods=75000)
         self.b_freq = self.rng8[:50000].append(self.rng8[50000:])
 
     def time_add_timedelta(self):