Ropes optimizations

Small optimizations on Rope, significantly speeds-up concatenation and indexed access, however, slows substring.

Before :
 * `./substr_bench -m rope --loops 100000 --strlen 25 --ccts 10 NIT_GC_CHOOSER=large` => 0.12s
 * `./chain_concat -m rope --loops 100000 --strlen 25 --ccts 10 NIT_GC_CHOOSER=large` => 1.47s
 * `./iteration_bench -m rope --iter-mode index --loops 100000 --strlen 25 --ccts 10 NIT_GC_CHOOSER=large` => 20.95s

After :
 * `./substr_bench -m rope --loops 100000 --strlen 25 --ccts 10 NIT_GC_CHOOSER=large` => 0.36s
 * `./chain_concat -m rope --loops 100000 --strlen 25 --ccts 10 NIT_GC_CHOOSER=large` => 0.25s
 * `./iteration_bench -m rope --iter-mode index --loops 100000 --strlen 25 --ccts 10 NIT_GC_CHOOSER=large` => 1.47s