gh-125063: Emit slices as constants in the bytecode compiler #125064
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This emits slices as constants in the compiler (when the slices only contain constant members).
I measured a 10% speedup on the cavity_flow benchmark in npbench, which not surprisingly uses a lot of slices, but this kind of code is fairly idiomatic for Numpy. (EDIT: The benchmark as a standalone script)
This does measure as are 1% slower on pyperformance, but that seems largely due to
unpack_sequence. I'm going to rerun on more platforms, and also collect stats, since I would expect a measurable reduction in instructions executed.