Enable exact type checks with HPy_TypeCheck #309
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In CPython, there are usually macros like:
That translates to following in HPy:
As it turns out, the exact type check is pretty verbose in HPy and having two API calls may also be a high performance drawback.
An alternative approach would be to have a new API for that. Something like
HPy_TypeCheckExact
(which would come with a new context function as well).