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Unionize actor heap large and small chunks (#4568)
Prior to this commit, small_chunk_t and large_chunk_t were distinct types. This was great for correctness but prevented a useful optimization. This commit changes things so that small_chunk_t and large_chunk_t have been combined into chunk_t which has a union in it for the small/large chunk specific fields. There are now a lot of assertions added in the relevant functions that deal with small and large chunks to ensure that the received chunk is of the right type because the compiler can no longer help enforce correctness. This allows for small and large chunk recycling to take advantage of the fact that the block backing a small chunk is the same size as the block backing the smallest large chunk size allowed so they both now use the same recycled chunk list. The large chunk recycling has also been enhanced to take advantage of the long tail distribution of allocation sizes and there are now multiple size specific chunk lists for large chunk recycling with one extra large chunk list for recycling that has all chunks bigger than the largest size specific list that is kept sorted and searched/used as the old large chunk recycling list was.
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