[issue16286] Use hash if available to optimize a==b and a!=b for bytes and str

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger added the comment:

> Serhiy, Gregory, Raymond, Antoine: so what is your feeling on 
> this issue? Is it worth it?

I don't think it is worth it.  There may be some cases that benefit, but it adds extra branching code to the common cases (sets and dicts) that already have the identity check.

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