From a5de0c03bf40f81b4bd0740eeb9019500b2d53f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "J. Nick Koston" <nick@koston.org>
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 21:32:03 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid copying list to reverse segments when making children
 (#1250)

---
 CHANGES/1250.misc.rst | 1 +
 yarl/_url.py          | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 120000 CHANGES/1250.misc.rst

diff --git a/CHANGES/1250.misc.rst b/CHANGES/1250.misc.rst
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..7d8ab763d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGES/1250.misc.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+1248.misc.rst
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/yarl/_url.py b/yarl/_url.py
index 898118f80..f59f7f860 100644
--- a/yarl/_url.py
+++ b/yarl/_url.py
@@ -959,7 +959,8 @@ def _make_child(self, paths: "Sequence[str]", encoded: bool = False) -> "URL":
                 )
             path = path if encoded else self._PATH_QUOTER(path)
             needs_normalize |= "." in path
-            segments = list(reversed(path.split("/")))
+            segments = path.split("/")
+            segments.reverse()
             # remove trailing empty segment for all but the last path
             segment_slice_start = int(not last and segments[0] == "")
             parsed += segments[segment_slice_start:]