This patch transforms functions of the form
```
fn f<Generic: AsRef<Concrete>>(arg: Generic) {
let arg: &Concrete = arg.as_ref();
// Code using arg
}
```
to the next form:
```
#[inline]
fn f<Generic: AsRef<Concrete>>(arg: Generic) {
fn f_inner(arg: &Concrete) {
// Code using arg
}
f_inner(arg.as_ref());
}
```
Therefore, most of the code is concrete and not duplicated during monomorphisation (unless inlined)
and only the tiny bit of conversion code is duplicated. This method was mentioned by @aturon in the
Conversion Traits RFC (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blame/master/text/0529-conversion-traits.md#L249) and similar techniques are not uncommon in C++ template libraries.
This patch goes to the extremes and applies the transformation even to smaller functions<sup>1</sup>
for purity of the experiment. *Some of them can be rolled back* if considered too ridiculous.
<sup>1</sup> However who knows how small are these functions are after inlining and everything.
The functions in question are mostly `fs`/`os` functions and not used especially often with variety
of argument types, so the code size reduction is rather small (but consistent). Here are the sizes
of stage2 artifacts before and after the patch:
https://gist.github.com/petrochenkov/e76a6b280f382da13c5dhttps://gist.github.com/petrochenkov/6cc28727d5256dbdfed0
Note:
All the `inner` functions are concrete and unavailable for cross-crate inlining, some of them may
need `#[inline]` annotations in the future.
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