We try to move the data when the length can be encoded in
the much smaller number of bytes. This interferes with indices and
type abbreviations however, so this commit introduces a public
interface to get and mark a "stable" (i.e. not affected by
relaxation) position of the current pointer.
The relaxation logic only moves a small data, currently at most
256 bytes, as moving the data can be costly. There might be
further opportunities to allow more relaxation by moving fields
around, which I didn't seriously try.
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