[mypyc] Add primitive for <type>.__name__ #19683
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This seems quite common in real-world code, including in performance-critical functions. Python 3.11 added a C API function for this, which we use here.
The primitive works for arbtirary objects, but only type objects have a specialized code path. Other use cases of
__name__
seem typically less performance-sensitive.This PR makes this micro-benchmark 2.0x faster on Python 3.13: