perf: RPC / provider level speed optimizations

[antazoey]

What I did

A collection of perfs to make Ape faster... ongoing research and implementation..

How I did it

How to verify it

Checklist

• All changes are completed
• New test cases have been added
• Documentation has been updated

[antazoey]

before (main):

In [3]: %time contract = owner.deploy(project.VyperContract, 123)
Wall time: 108 ms

In [4]: %time contract = owner.deploy(project.VyperContract, 123)
Wall time: 96.2 ms

In [5]: %time contract = owner.deploy(project.VyperContract, 123)
Wall time: 93.9 ms

after (this PR):

In [2]: %time contract = owner.deploy(project.VyperContract, 123)
Wall time: 100 ms

In [3]: %time contract = owner.deploy(project.VyperContract, 123)
Wall time: 87.5 ms

In [4]: %time contract = owner.deploy(project.VyperContract, 123)
Wall time: 87.8 ms

Ape 0.6.22 (supposedly the faster version of Ape):

In [3]: %time contract = owner.deploy(project.VyperContract, 123)
Wall time: 372 ms

In [3]: %time contract = owner.deploy(project.VyperContract, 123)
Wall time: 103 ms

In [4]: %time contract = owner.deploy(project.VyperContract, 123)
Wall time: 125 ms

[antazoey]

More metrics:

Name (time in ms)          Min       Max      Mean  StdDev    Median     IQR

before:
test_showt            463.9104  479.3264  471.3744  6.1150  471.2911  9.7154


after
test_showt            361.3695  461.4727  383.7982  43.4572  365.1572  25.610