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This is essentially a long-belated follow-up to Arnold's #12606. The key observation here is that the enum-tag-single-payload witnesses are strictly more powerful than the XI witnesses: you can simulate the XI witnesses by using an extra case count that's <= the XI count. Of course the result is less efficient than the XI witnesses, but that's less important than overall code size, and we can work on fast-paths for that. The extra inhabitant count is stored in a 32-bit field (always present) following the ValueWitnessFlags, which now occupy a fixed 32 bits. This inflates non-XI VWTs on 32-bit targets by a word, but the net effect on XI VWTs is to shrink them by two words, which is likely to be the more important change. Also, being able to access the XI count directly should be a nice win.