From 095f0ec2fc48ff353bd3bee21d0055b99fdc3aa9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rapptz <rapptz@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 22:50:05 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Optimise some member and user related routines.

* Skip user update if possible
* Drop copy.copy in favour of manual copy

Credit to Hornwitser for these findings.
---
 discord/member.py | 23 +++++++++++++++++++----
 discord/state.py  |  2 +-
 discord/user.py   | 13 +++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/discord/member.py b/discord/member.py
index 009a21043..f265a1be7 100644
--- a/discord/member.py
+++ b/discord/member.py
@@ -178,6 +178,20 @@ class Member(discord.abc.Messageable, _BaseUser):
     def __hash__(self):
         return hash(self._user)
 
+    @classmethod
+    def _copy(cls, member):
+        self = cls.__new__(cls) # to bypass __init__
+
+        self._roles = utils.SnowflakeList(member._roles, is_sorted=True)
+        self.joined_at = member.joined_at
+        self.status = member.status
+        self.guild = member.guild
+        self.nick = member.nick
+        self.activity = member.activity
+        self._state = member._state
+        self._user = User._copy(member._user)
+        return self
+
     async def _get_channel(self):
         ch = await self.create_dm()
         return ch
@@ -205,10 +219,11 @@ class Member(discord.abc.Messageable, _BaseUser):
         self.status = try_enum(Status, data['status'])
         self.activity = create_activity(data.get('game'))
 
-        u = self._user
-        u.name = user.get('username', u.name)
-        u.avatar = user.get('avatar', u.avatar)
-        u.discriminator = user.get('discriminator', u.discriminator)
+        if len(user) > 1:
+            u = self._user
+            u.name = user.get('username', u.name)
+            u.avatar = user.get('avatar', u.avatar)
+            u.discriminator = user.get('discriminator', u.discriminator)
 
     def _copy(self):
         c = copy.copy(self)
diff --git a/discord/state.py b/discord/state.py
index 7180509a0..676ca513b 100644
--- a/discord/state.py
+++ b/discord/state.py
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ class ConnectionState:
             member = Member(guild=guild, data=data, state=self)
             guild._add_member(member)
 
-        old_member = member._copy()
+        old_member = Member._copy(member)
         member._presence_update(data=data, user=user)
         self.dispatch('member_update', old_member, member)
 
diff --git a/discord/user.py b/discord/user.py
index bce31d69e..07a173699 100644
--- a/discord/user.py
+++ b/discord/user.py
@@ -91,6 +91,19 @@ class BaseUser(_BaseUser):
     def __hash__(self):
         return self.id >> 22
 
+    @classmethod
+    def _copy(cls, user):
+        self = cls.__new__(cls) # bypass __init__
+
+        self.name = user.name
+        self.id = user.id
+        self.discriminator = user.discriminator
+        self.avatar = user.avatar
+        self.bot = user.bot
+        self._state = user._state
+
+        return self
+
     @property
     def avatar_url(self):
         """Returns a friendly URL version of the avatar the user has.