Added const where avaible

[ShaharNaveh]

• closes #xxxx
• tests added / passed
• passes black pandas
• passes git diff upstream/master -u -- "*.py" | flake8 --diff
• whatsnew entry

[jreback]

any perf change?

cc @WillAyd @jbrockmendel

[jbrockmendel]

can we make this const int64_t[:]?

[jbrockmendel]

LGTM

[ShaharNaveh]

any perf change?

cc @WillAyd @jbrockmendel

Unsure which function to test, which one you would like to see?

[jreback]

asv on time zone functions

[ShaharNaveh]

@jreback Actually I can't manage to run asv, I hoped you can give me a specific function/method name to %timeit on Posted below (not sure if I did it right)

[ShaharNaveh]

[ 75.00%] ··· tslibs.timestamp.TimestampOps.time_tz_convert                                                 ok
[ 75.00%] ··· ============ =============
                   tz                   
              ------------ -------------
                  None        296±4ns   
               US/Eastern    17.8±0.2μs 
                 <UTC>      5.11±0.04μs 
                tzutc()      5.17±0.2μs 
              ============ =============

[ 75.00%] · For pandas commit 4195bfbe <master> (round 2/2):
[ 75.00%] ·· Building for conda-py3.6-Cython-matplotlib-numba-numexpr-numpy-odfpy-openpyxl-pytables-pytest-scipy-sqlalchemy-xlrd-xlsxwriter-xlwt...
[ 75.00%] ·· Benchmarking conda-py3.6-Cython-matplotlib-numba-numexpr-numpy-odfpy-openpyxl-pytables-pytest-scipy-sqlalchemy-xlrd-xlsxwriter-xlwt
[100.00%] ··· tslibs.timestamp.TimestampOps.time_tz_convert                                                 ok
[100.00%] ··· ============ =============
                   tz                   
              ------------ -------------
                  None        309±3ns   
               US/Eastern    17.6±0.4μs 
                 <UTC>      4.90±0.03μs 
                tzutc()      5.11±0.1μs 
              ============ =============


BENCHMARKS NOT SIGNIFICANTLY CHANGED.

[jbrockmendel]

Thanks @MomIsBestFriend