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gh-106931: Intern Statically Allocated Strings Globally (gh-107272)

We tried this before with a dict and for all interned strings.  That ran into problems due to interpreter isolation.  However, exclusively using a per-interpreter cache caused some inconsistency that can eliminate the benefit of interning.  Here we circle back to using a global cache, but only for statically allocated strings.  We also use a more-basic _Py_hashtable_t for that global cache instead of a dict.

Ideally we would only have the global cache, but the optional isolation of each interpreter's allocator means that a non-static string object must not outlive its interpreter.  Thus we would have to store a copy of each such interned string in the global cache, tied to the main interpreter.
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Eric Snow committed
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Committed by GitHub <noreply@github.com> on 7/27/2023, 7:56:59 PM