Closes #2075.

Evaluate multiplication of string literals at compile time if the result is short (<= 256 characters).

Docs Update

Fix typo: to -> two

Disable an optimisation that turned out to be a pessimisation (replacing literal lists with tuples).

Fix typos in docs

Increase number of items for which list.extend([...]) is optimised. Benchmarking shows that append() is still faster for 8 items (on an empty list) than extend().
This limit could be increased for larger lists (which grow by a larger amount), but if we have to settle on one value then 8 is good enough, as we can expect literal item lists to be rather short.

Keep "result_is_used" flag across node replacements in type analysis and optimisations to make sure it's still available at code generation time.

Fixes #2059.

This causes the compiler to get confused and reuse the magic `cimport cython` module. See #2057.

Closes #2048.

Undeprecate __richcmp__

Silence C compiler warning about fall-through in switch statement for kw-only argument parsing code.

Tweak method call fallbacks of dict.get(), dict.setdefault() and dict.pop() into fast unbound method calls to the underlying C function.