Storing cells as boost::any objects makes us use expensive
boost::any_cast to access the data. This change replaces boost::any
with bytes object which holds the value in serialized form (the same
as will be used for on-wire format).
If the cell type is atomic, you use fields accessors defined in
atomic_cell class, eg like this:
if (column.type.is_atomic()) {
if (atomic_cell::is_live(c) {
auto timestamp = atomic_cell::timestamp(c);
...
}
}
Eventually we could switch to a more officient semi-serialized form
with native byte order but I don't want to introduce it just yet for
simplicity.
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