Implement caching for PersonIndex

[mbollmann]

First attempt at implementing caching for the library, targeting PersonIndex.

In my testing, calling anthology.people.load() takes ca. 7 seconds when building from the XML files, and ~1.5 seconds when loading from the cache file.

However, when calling anthology.load_all(), the difference is much less pronounced — maybe it's worth testing how much Collection objects would profit from caching as well.

Finally, I encountered some issues during local testing where occasionally the cache file would be loaded even though it was empty, so despite the existing tests there are some more kinks to be ironed out.

[codecov]

Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 98.00000% with 1 line in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 95.32%. Comparing base (d4c7d10) to head (9b57e12).

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
python/acl_anthology/people/index.py	96.96%	1 Missing ⚠️

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python/acl_anthology/anthology.py	89.94% <100.00%> (+0.56%)	⬆️
python/acl_anthology/collections/collection.py	98.41% <ø> (-0.02%)	⬇️
python/acl_anthology/config.py	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
python/acl_anthology/people/name.py	98.01% <ø> (ø)
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python/acl_anthology/people/index.py	97.61% <96.96%> (-0.09%)	⬇️

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[mjpost]

Just request the review when you want it.

[nschneid]

@mbollmann Can this be closed?

[mbollmann]

This exact PR may be out of date but the functionality is still very much at the top of my wishlist, so this would be good to keep around until I know which parts of this can be scrapped or re-used.