bpo-31333: Re-implement ABCMeta in C (#5273)

This adds C versions of methods used by ABCMeta that
improve performance of various ABC operations.

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+``_abc`` module is added.  It is a speedup module with C implementations for
+various functions and methods in ``abc``.  Creating an ABC subclass and calling
+``isinstance`` or ``issubclass`` with an ABC subclass are up to 1.5x faster.
+In addition, this makes Python start-up up to 10% faster.
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+Note that the new implementation hides internal registry and caches, previously
+accessible via private attributes ``_abc_registry``, ``_abc_cache``, and
+``_abc_negative_cache``.  There are three debugging helper methods that can be
+used instead ``_dump_registry``, ``_abc_registry_clear``, and
+``_abc_caches_clear``.