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- `RefPtr` no longer tries to have distinct cases for interal-vs-external reference counts. Instead we always require an internal reference count.
- Types the used `RefPtr` but weren't `RefObject` were made to inherit `RefObject`
- The `ReferenceCounted` base class was removed, so that only `RefObject` remains
- Implicit conversion from `RefPtr<T>` to `T*` added
- This created some complicates for other types that relied on implicit conversions, so this isn't a net cleanup right now
- The main type that got messed up by the above was `String`, which previously held a `RefPtr<char, ...>`. This change thus *also* includes a major overhaul of `String`:
- `String` now holds all its data via indirection, using a `StringRepresentation` that is a `RefObject`. This object holds a length, capacity, and directly stores the character data in its allocation. This means that `sizeof(String)==sizeof(void*)`
- It is now possible to directly mutate a `String` by appending to its representation (we just need to ensure it has a reference count of `1`, possibly by cloning it). This means that `StringBuilder` is now basically just an idomatic use of `String`
- A couple operations that just return sub-ranges of a `String` now return `StringSlice` to avoid allocation when it isn't needed. This required more work.
- Indices into strings changed from `int` to `UInt` (which is pointer-sized). This had a bunch of follow-on changes because the value `-1` sometimes needs to be special-cased in code that uses indices. Further cleanups are probably needed here.
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