Trivial fns allowing control if a type is trivially encoded/decoded

[xunilrj]

Description

Continuation of #7488.

This PR introduces the option for each type to control its own is_trivial.

Primitive data types have direct implementation (only decoding bool is false, as we need to guarantee its value is zero or one).

Structs, tuples, arrays etc... are trivial if their runtime representation and "inner types" allow for trivial encoding or decoding.

Enums are more complicated as we need to control that the enum tag is valid; they are not trivial.

String arrays are not trivially encoded/decoded for backwards compatibility with "encoding v0" that needs padding in some cases.

Some tests are showing a small regression (6 gas), which comes from the introduced "if" not being optimised away. I want to solve this in another PR, where the "if" condition will come from a const, and IR generation will guarantee that only one branch will ever be emitted.

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Note

Add per-type trivial encode/decode flags and use raw_ptr fast paths in ABI (encode/decode) with supporting changes to codec, String/Vec, and tests.

• std/codec:
  • Introduce AbiEncode::is_encode_trivial and AbiDecode::is_decode_trivial; add helpers is_encode_trivial/is_decode_trivial.
  • Switch encode/abi_decode to branch on triviality; add decode_from_raw_ptr and raw-ptr-based decode_* helpers.
  • Make BufferReader parameter accessors return raw_ptr; minor refactors to use raw ptr copies.
  • Implement triviality for primitives, arrays/tuples (conditional), str[strN] non-trivial, enums non-trivial.
• std/string & std/vec: implement trivial encode/decode markers (non-trivial) and adapt codec impls.
• Tests/fixtures:
  • Update snapshots (IR/ASM/bytecode/gas), JSON ABI offsets, contract/predicate IDs, and logging expectations to match new encoding paths.

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CodSpeed Performance Report

Merging #7501 will degrade performances by 13.65%

_{Comparing xunilrj/trivial-fns-codec-traits (d97e289) with master (c73137d)}

Summary

❌ 1 regression
✅ 24 untouched

⚠️ Please fix the performance issues or acknowledge them on CodSpeed.

Benchmarks breakdown

	Benchmark	BASE	HEAD	Change
❌	compile	5.3 s	6.1 s	-13.65%

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[JoshuaBatty]

-13.24% compile time regression is a bit unfortunate. Any way we can get this number down a bit?

[xunilrj]

Bytecode e2e

	Improvements	Regressions
Count	106	37
Average	18.99%	-23.49%
Median	13.27%	-6.36%
Max	47.47%	-525.00%
Min	0.61%	-0.52%

Gas Usage e2e

	Improvements	Regressions
Count	40	19
Average	8.10%	-18.67%
Median	5.77%	-2.89%
Max	36.80%	-262.26%
Min	0.04%	-0.21%

Gas Usage In Langauge Tests

	Improvements	Regressions
Count	6	19
Average	1.41%	-1.94%
Median	0.65%	-0.12%
Max	3.64%	-13.59%
Min	0.03%	-0.01%

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PR Summary

Introduce per-type trivial encode/decode checks (integrated into codegen), implement for std types, and update snapshots, IDs, and script tooling accordingly.

• ABI/Codec:
  • Add per-type is_encode_trivial/is_decode_trivial hooks and integrate them in codegen to select fast/strict paths; refactor array/string decode to simpler memcpy-style paths (smaller bytecode/lower gas).
• Std Library:
  • Implement triviality methods for String and Vec<T> (both non-trivial), and mark several custom test types as non-trivial encoders.
• Tests & Snapshots:
  • Update IR/ASM snapshots, gas/size metrics, JSON ABI configurable offsets, and bytecode hashes.
  • Refresh hardcoded contract/predicate IDs across multiple test scripts.
• Tooling:
  • Fix update-contract-ids.sh to pass --path when invoking forc contract-id.

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