When making changes that have a large impact on coverage counter creation, this
makes it easier to see whether the number of physical counters has changed.
(The highest counter ID seen in coverage maps is not necessarily the same as
the number of physical counters actually used by the instrumented code, but
it's the best approximation we can get from looking only at the coverage maps,
and it should be reasonably accurate in most cases.)
As more and more of the span refiner's functionality has been pulled out into
separate early passes, it has finally reached the point where we can remove the
rest of the old `SpansRefiner` code, and replace it with a single
modestly-sized function.
