Optimized away the creation of empty string objects.

Prior to this CL, creating an empty message object would create
two empty string objects for every declared field.  First we
created a unique string object for the field's default.  Then
we created yet another string object when we assigned the
default value into the message: we called #encode to ensure
that the string would have the correct encoding and be frozen.

I optimized these unnecessary objects away with two fixes:

1. Memoize the empty string so that we don't create a new empty
   string for every field's default.
2. If we are assigning a string to a message object, avoid creating
   a new string if the assigned string has the correct encoding and
   is already frozen.

* Add changelog for 3.9.x

* Revert "Make php message class final to avoid mocking (#6277)" (#6324)

This reverts commit 7f84a943.
This is just temporary. Eventually, we still want to roll forward this
change. Some users are complaining they need more time to clean up their
code.

* Update extract_includes.bat.in

File io_win32.h is not in directory google\protobuf\stubs under directory google\protobuf\io

* Set oneof case in array constructor (#6351)

Forgot to set it previously.

* Update protobuf version (#6366)

* Drop building wheel for python 3.4 (#6406)

https://github.com/matthew-brett/multibuild/pull/240

* Fix binary compatibility in FieldCodec factory methods (#6380) (#6424)

* Fix binary compatibility in FieldCodec factory messages

* Make default value parameter for current factories required

* Route old methods through default value overloads

* Remove ExtensionRegistry.Add(params) overload

* Rename ExtensionRegistry.Add(IEnumerable<Extension>) overload to AddRange

* Edit naming of parameters in Extension classes

* * Fix add API warnings to docs for extension APIs
* Rename internal ExtensionSet.GetValue to TryGetValue

* Disable javadoc error (#6371)

* Disable javadoc error

Actual fixes of the javadoc will be followed up

* Remove duplicated configuration

* Update javadoc plugin version

* Updated Bazel test script to use most recent Bazel version (#6413) (#6433)

I'm not exactly sure why, but this fixes the failing Bazel presubmit
test. Using the most recent version seems like a good idea anyway so
that we can make sure we're compatible with any new Bazel changes.

* [bazel] Add fixes for --incompatible_load_{cc,java,proto}_rules_from_bzl

* No need to update version in generated code (#6471)

generate_descriptor will handle that

* Update protobuf version (#6472)

* No free when construct was not done

This fix the segfault when some other error happens

* Add more tests

* Use Sub to avoid printing too much

Fix #3218

This reverts commit dcc8ffd9.

* Add conformance tests for explicit packed/unpacked fields

* Fix typo

* Update failure lists

* Update failure list

* Use enum class to make enum scoped

* compatibility tests between last released and the current version

This change adds the required loads to examples and zlib.
For full compatibility with --incompatible_load_{cc,java,proto}_rules_from_bzl,
we will need to roll gtest to a newer version.

Windows: expand path names on command line

* Add binary conformance test for default repeated fields

1) Both packed and unpacked encoding should be accepted for parsing.
2) Encode should follow the default way for the syntax.

* Uncomment test

* Remove is_primitive

* Add failed tests to failure lists.

* Add failed test to failure list

* Use binary format to specify expected value

Text format cannot distinguish whether repeated field is packed or not.

* Change method name from ToHexString to ToOctString

* Add failed test to failure list

* Add failed test to php's failure list

* Fix comments

* Add csharp compatibility tests for 3.7.0

* Add compatibility test between last major version with current for C#

* Update last version number

* compatibility tests between last released and the current version

* fix typo

* support hashes for struct initalizers

* convert hash keys to string

* update tests

* add extra asserts

* Add binary conformance test for message type.

* Add test case for merge repeated scalar message field

* Add failed tests to failure list

* Add failed test to php's failure list

* Remove successful tests from php c's failure list

* Add binary conformance test for enum fields.

* Add failed conformance test to js failure list

* Add binary conformance test case for bytes field

* Add failed conformance test to php's failure list

https://github.com/matthew-brett/multibuild/pull/240

* Add conformance test for binary string

* Add failing tests to php failure list