Cache the result of loading pyproject.toml file

[ericwb]

This change adds the functools cache decorator to avoid repeated calls to _get_package_config, which results in IO hits to read a file.

Closes #3341

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[ericwb]

Oops, functools.cache is only available in Python 3.9. Need to switch to lru_cache