Re-apply patch #1700288 (first applied in r59931, rolled back in r59940)
now that ctypes uses a more supported method to create types:
Method cache optimization, by Armin Rigo, ported to 2.6 by Kevin Jacobs.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 51d2731..ca2d996 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
Core and builtins
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+- Patch #1700288: added a type attribute cache that caches method accesses,
+ resulting in speedups in heavily object-oriented code.
+
- Bug #1776: __import__() no longer accepts filenames on any platform.
The first parameter to __import__() must be a valid module name.