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Implement ffill/bfill in terms of 'take', avoiding an object cast.

ser = pd.Series(range(10**5), dtype="int64[pyarrow]")
ser[5000] = pd.NA

%timeit ser.ffill()
609 µs ± 25.9 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1,000 loops each)  # <- branch
5.49 ms ± 158 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100 loops each)  # <- main

Some of the perf difference is likely due to no longer issuing a PerformanceWarning.