Speedup opam update when nothing changed #6283
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Fixes #5553
The code in its current form is very crude and in no way ready to be merged.
This PR achieves a 8x speedup compared to 2.3.0~rc1 on subsequent empty updates after initialization of the new values, going from 3.5s to an almost instantaneous 0.4s.
TODO: