avoid python list copy in sequence initialization #401
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The pr tries to fix this.
Before the fix, vllm will be stuck for a while when the input is very long before returning to the user. This is because we have an expensive python list copy in the _append_tokens_to_blocks function used by sequence initialization here. (For the Shakespeare example, it takes 226s for this line).
After this fix, the sequence initialization function returns instantly (<1e-5 s).