[IMP] tools.ustr: speed up average call by short-circuiting common cases

Direct type comparison is significantly faster than
isinstance/issubclass calls, so it is worth using
in a method that is very frequently called.

The extra call to getencoding() also causes a significant
overhead, so we try to spare it by tring the hint_encoding
first. If all fails, the default behavior still applies.

Using micro-benchmarks, the execution time of
ustr() on an already-unicode string is cut in
half (no conversion is needed), and the overhead
for converting utf-8 bytestrings is also
cut in half (the conversion itself is O(n) on
the string length, obviously)

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