[issue20002] Cleanup and microoptimize pathlib

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> Here is compatible with 2.7 part of the patch. It is important to
> apply it before 3.4 release otherwise supporting different versions
> will be more tedious.

Do you have performance numbers that show a significant improvement?

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