[issue36030] add internal API function to create tuple without items array initialization

[Sergey Fedoseev]

Sergey Fedoseev <fedoseev.sergey at gmail.com> added the comment:

>> This optimization also can be used for BUILD_TUPLE opcode and in pickle module, if it's OK to add _PyTuple_StealFromArray() function :-)

> I would like to see a micro-benchmark showing that it's faster.

+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------------------+
| Benchmark       | build_tuple_ref | build_tuple_untracked       |
+=================+=================+=============================+
| (a, )           | 19.9 ns         | 19.4 ns: 1.03x faster (-3%) |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------------------+
| (a, 1)          | 24.0 ns         | 22.6 ns: 1.06x faster (-6%) |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------------------+
| (a, 1, 1)       | 28.2 ns         | 25.9 ns: 1.09x faster (-8%) |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------------------+
| (a, 1, 1, 1)    | 31.0 ns         | 29.0 ns: 1.07x faster (-6%) |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------------------+
| (a, 1, 1, 1, 1) | 34.7 ns         | 32.2 ns: 1.08x faster (-7%) |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------------------+

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