This PR changes the `emit_opaque` and `read_opaque` methods in the RBML library to use a space-efficient binary encoder that does not emit any tags and uses the LEB128 variable-length integer format for all numbers it emits.
The space savings are nice, albeit a bit underwhelming, especially for dynamic libraries where metadata is already compressed.
| RLIBs | NEW | OLD |
|--------------|--------|-----------|
|libstd | 8.8 MB | 10.5 MB |
|libcore |15.6 MB | 19.7 MB |
|libcollections| 3.7 MB | 4.8 MB |
|librustc |34.0 MB | 37.8 MB |
|libsyntax |28.3 MB | 32.1 MB |
| SOs | NEW | OLD |
|---------------|-----------|--------|
| libstd | 4.8 MB | 5.1 MB |
| librustc | 8.6 MB | 9.2 MB |
| libsyntax | 7.8 MB | 8.4 MB |
At least this should make up for the size increase caused recently by also storing MIR in crate metadata.
Can this be a breaking change for anyone?
cc @rust-lang/compiler
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