Merge #8364

8364: Memory usage improvements r=jonas-schievink a=alexmaco

These are mostly focused on splitting up enum variants with large size differences between variants by `Box`-ing things up.

In my testing this reduces the memory usage somewhere in the low percentages, even though the measurements are quite noisy.

Co-authored-by: Alexandru Macovei <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/crates/hir_def/src/path.rs b/crates/hir_def/src/path.rs
index f9c8328f0..b528ff8ba 100644
--- a/crates/hir_def/src/path.rs
+++ b/crates/hir_def/src/path.rs
@@ -289,6 +289,12 @@ impl From<Name> for Path {
     }
 }
 
+impl From<Name> for Box<Path> {
+    fn from(name: Name) -> Box<Path> {
+        Box::new(Path::from(name))
+    }
+}
+
 impl From<Name> for ModPath {
     fn from(name: Name) -> ModPath {
         ModPath::from_segments(PathKind::Plain, iter::once(name))