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Commit 0a121917 authored by Hannes Siebenhandl's avatar Hannes Siebenhandl
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Avoid unneccessarily re-serialising the `ModIface`

To reduce memory usage of `ModIface`, we serialise `ModIface` to an
in-memory byte array, which implicitly shares duplicated values.

This serailised byte array can be reused to avoid work when we actually
write the `ModIface` to disk.
We introduce a new field to `ModIface` which allows us to save the byte
array, and write it to disk if the `ModIface` wasn't changed after the
initial serialisation.

This requires us to change absolute offsets, for example to jump to the
deduplication table for `Name` or `FastString` with relative offsets, as
the deduplication byte array doesn't contain header information, such as
fingerprints.
To allow us to dump the binary blob to disk, we need to replace all
absolute offsets with relative ones.

This leads to new primitives for `ModIface`, which help to construct
relative offsets.
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