[issue15612] Rewrite StringIO to use the _PyUnicodeWriter API

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> It provides better performance when writing non-ASCII strings.

I would like to know why that is the case. If PyUnicode_Join is not optimal, then perhaps we should better optimize it.

Also, you should post benchmarks with tiny strings as well.

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