Modify IRGen to emit “anonymous” string constants with names of the form `@.str.<len>.<contents>` (with a special mangling for internal `\0` characters). This makes it much easier to write IRGen tests that check for the contents of strings, because matching the constant name also implies that the constant has the expected content.
In anticipation of potential future HW features, e.g. armv8.5 memory
tagging, only use the high 4 bytes as discriminator bits in
_BridgeObject rather than the top 8 bits. Utilize two perf flags to
cover this instead. This requires shifting around a fair amount of
internal complexity.
This takes care of the standard library portion, but we need a new
BuiltinUTF16ExtendedGraphemeClusterLiteralConvertible protocol in order to
fully recover the performance of character literals.
Note that part of the character_literals.swift test is currently disabled. That
will need to be fixed before we can merge this work.
This is done by ensuring that the corresponding Character constructor is inlined. llvm will do the constant folding.
Also add a test which checks this.
It makes character literals much faster (3x improvement for the CharacterLiteralsSmall benchmark)
And it removes _a lot_ of redundant code (~80% for the CharacterLiteralsSmall benchmark)
