Use more aggressive gc thresholds for a big speedup #18306
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In some cases gc was consuming a significant fraction of CPU, so run gc less often.
This made incremental checking of torch 27% faster for me (based on 100 measurements), and also speeds up incremental self check by about 20% and non-incremental self check by about 10%. All measurements were on Python 3.13.