Finalize hi-haddock

The hi-haddock work (including a lot of memory optimizations) is now merged into the ghc-9.6 branch the Haddock GitHub repository. This MR ports the work to ghc-head.

requested review from @mpickering

assigned to @FinleyMcIlwaine

mentioned in merge request ghc!10469 (closed)

marked this merge request as draft

added 27 commits

• 8b6ec7dc - Port the remains of Hi-Haddock
• 1a1dddac - Stdout for tests
• 67747ea6 - Formatting, organize imports
• de814638 - Fix empty context confusion in Convert module
• 36c79128 - Fix associated type families in Hoogle output
• 81a04e07 - Fix test refs
• b0969544 - Fix LaTeX backend test refs
• 967720b6 - Formatting and test source updates
• 203246bd - Fix missing deprecation warnings on record fields
• 73a1849a - Formatting and some comments
• 73c06f72 - Accept HTML test diffs
• 2e0ec341 - Adapt to new load' type
• 5d6d8e61 - Update mkWarningMap and moduleWarning
• b85d986a - Revert load' changes
• ee9dbcb3 - Accept change to Instances test in html-test
• 0cd6b72b - Reset ghc dep to ^>= 9.6
• 3921c7fd - Update CHANGES.md, user guide, recomp avoidance
• 5a7e30eb - Add "Avoiding Recompilation" section to docs
• f101c423 - Add "Avoiding Recompilation" section to docs
• f68fd48d - Add note about stubdir to recompilation docs
• 9c6f7ef9 - Merge pull request #1597 from haskell/finley/hi-haddock-9.6
• 539ddfde - Replace SYB traversals
• 14f41255 - Test ref accepts, remove unused HaddockClsInst
• 3c44b8d3 - Use batchMsg for progress reporting during load
• 14caa526 - Merge pull request #1600 from haskell/finley/hi-haddock-optim
• 7d5ff3ff - hi-haddock squashed
• 2ec4f672 - Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/ghc-9.6' into finley/hi-haddock-squashed

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