docs/whatsnew: Mention OrderedDict C implementation

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 Significantly Improved Library Modules:

+* :class:`collections.OrderedDict` is now implemented in C, which improves
+  its performance between 4x to 100x times.  Contributed by Eric Snow in
+  :issue:`16991`.
+
 * You may now pass bytes to the :mod:`tempfile` module's APIs and it will
  return the temporary pathname as bytes instead of str.  It also accepts
  a value of ``None`` on parameters where only str was accepted in the past to