Optimize string encoding (#41) #136

Job	Run time
Build on ubuntu (x86_64 - auto)	1m 42s
PGO build on ubuntu-latest / 3.7	6m 40s
Build on ubuntu (aarch64 - auto)	3m 54s
PGO build on ubuntu-latest / 3.8	6m 33s
Build on macos (x86_64 - auto)	3m 41s
PGO build on ubuntu-latest / 3.9	6m 38s
Build on macos (aarch64 - auto)	3m 45s
PGO build on ubuntu-latest / 3.10	6m 10s
Build on windows (x86_64 - auto)	2m 50s
PGO build on ubuntu-latest / 3.11	5m 34s
Build on windows (i686 - auto)	4m 10s
PGO build on ubuntu-latest / 3.12	5m 40s
Build on windows (aarch64 - auto)	4m 9s
PGO build on windows-latest / 3.7	7m 56s
Build on ubuntu (i686 - auto)	5m 40s
PGO build on windows-latest / 3.8	8m 20s
Build on ubuntu (armv7 - auto)	3m 3s
build-sdist	9s
PGO build on windows-latest / 3.9	7m 30s
Build on ubuntu (ppc64le - auto)	2m 53s
PGO build on windows-latest / 3.10	8m 2s
Build on ubuntu (s390x - auto)	3m 29s
PGO build on windows-latest / 3.11	6m 44s
Build on ubuntu (x86_64 - musllinux_1_1)	3m 20s
Build on ubuntu (aarch64 - musllinux_1_1)	3m 21s
PGO build on windows-latest / 3.12	7m 28s
PGO build on macos-12 / 3.7	7m 5s
PGO build on macos-12 / 3.8	7m 11s
PGO build on macos-12 / 3.9	6m 21s
PGO build on macos-12 / 3.10	6m 18s
PGO build on macos-12 / 3.11	6m 27s
PGO build on macos-12 / 3.12	7m 21s
PGO build on macos-14 / 3.10	4m 51s
PGO build on macos-14 / 3.11	4m 37s
PGO build on macos-14 / 3.12	4m 24s
check	17s
Release	0s
	3h 4m 13s

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