gh-131196: Add C implementation of UUID stringification #140666
                
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This PR follows up on #140663 by, well, following up on my musing about whether there should be an optimized C implementation of UUID stringification.
I tried to tighten the C implementation as much as possible, e.g. by directly writing into an
1BYTE_KINDPyUnicode object (as e.g.pystrhex.cdoes, which I couldn't use here because of the unique separator situation UUIDs have). I'd appreciate extra eyes on it, though!The speedup seems pleasant for a fairly small patch – on my machine, some 4.5x: