Merge: Optimize get_or_null
Recent profiling of the interpreter nit shows that a lof of time is used in hashmaps. This PR improves the standard use-path with the safe method `get_or_null` that is more efficient (and simple) than `has_key` followed by `[]`.
The time for `nit doors_with_classes.nit 5000` give
before: 0m5.592s
after: 0m5.208s (-6,7%)
Note: by comparison, the ruby version is 0m2.284s, and the python is 0m0.116s ; there is still a lot of work
Pull-Request: #1139
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Terrasa <alexandre@moz-code.org>
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