Improve type stability

[cscherrer]

This PR makes some adjustments that aim to improve type stability. Both JET.jl and Aqua.jl seem happier after these changes. I didn't do exhaustive performance testing, but as one proxy for this...

# Before this PR
julia> @time Pkg.test()
 17.379904 seconds (264.21 k allocations: 24.215 MiB, 0.07% gc time)

# After this PR
julia> @time Pkg.test()
 13.845315 seconds (265.68 k allocations: 24.159 MiB, 0.08% gc time)
end

[codecov-commenter]

Codecov Report

Merging #12 (8c05a67) into main (2fed970) will increase coverage by 0.14%.
The diff coverage is 93.93%.

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src/core.jl	84.84% <89.47%> (+1.51%)	⬆️
src/autorun.jl	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
src/effecthandler.jl	94.11% <100.00%> (-0.33%)	⬇️
src/instances.jl	97.46% <100.00%> (+1.21%)	⬆️