opentelemetry-sdk: remove copy on span instantiation

.changelog/5272.changed

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+`opentelemetry-sdk`: remove unnecessary `copy` in Span creation

opentelemetry-sdk/benchmarks/trace/test_benchmark_trace.py

@@ -45,6 +45,17 @@ def benchmark_start_span():
     benchmark(benchmark_start_span)
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("num_attrs", [0, 1, 10, 50, 128])
+def test_start_span_with_attributes(benchmark, num_attrs):
+    attrs = {f"key{i}": f"value{i}" for i in range(num_attrs)}
+
+    def benchmark_start_span():
+        span = tracer.start_span("benchmarkedSpan", attributes=attrs)
+        span.end()
+
+    benchmark(benchmark_start_span)
+
+
 # pylint: disable=protected-access,redefined-outer-name
 def test_simple_start_span_with_tracer_configurator_rules(
     benchmark, num_tracer_configurator_rules

opentelemetry-sdk/src/opentelemetry/sdk/trace/__init__.py

@@ -1256,7 +1256,7 @@ def start_span(  # pylint: disable=too-many-locals
                 parent=parent_span_context,
                 sampler=self.sampler,
                 resource=self.resource,
-                attributes=sampling_result.attributes.copy(),
+                attributes=sampling_result.attributes,
                 span_processor=self.span_processor,
                 kind=kind,
                 links=links,