ivy's bindingUpdated instruction is using the assertNotEqual check to make
sure that NO_CHANGE value (of type Object) is not passed as a value to be
dirty-checked. In practice it means that any value passed as a binding
value would be compared to the NO_CHANGE object.
It turns out that the assertNotEqual is using == and given
that binding values are of different type and we always compare it to the
NO_CHANGE object we were doing lots of type coercion. It resulted in calls
to expensive types conversions and calls to Object.toString().
A profiler reported ~15% of the self time spent in the assertNotEqual
but it turns out that removing type coercion speeds up Material Chips with
input scenario much more (~40ms down to ~20ms).
This PR introduces new assert method `assertNotSame` that uses strict equality
check. The new assertion is used in binding instructions to compare to
NO_CHANGE object reference.
PR Close#29470
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