Botond Dénes ba7a9d2ac3 imr: switch back to open-coded description of structures ...

Commit aab6b0ee27 introduced the
controversial new IMR format, which relied on a very template-heavy
infrastructure to generate serialization and deserialization code via
template meta-programming. The promise was that this new format, beyond
solving the problems the previous open-coded representation had (working
on linearized buffers), will speed up migrating other components to this
IMR format, as the IMR infrastructure reduces code bloat, makes the code
more readable via declarative type descriptions as well as safer.
However, the results were almost the opposite. The template
meta-programming used by the IMR infrastructure proved very hard to
understand. Developers don't want to read or modify it. Maintainers
don't want to see it being used anywhere else. In short, nobody wants to
touch it.

This commit does a conceptual revert of
aab6b0ee27. A verbatim revert is not
possible because related code evolved a lot since the merge. Also, going
back to the previous code would mean we regress as we'd revert the move
to fragmented buffers. So this revert is only conceptual, it changes the
underlying infrastructure back to the previous open-coded one, but keeps
the fragmented buffers, as well as the interface of the related
components (to the extent possible).

Fixes: #5578

2021-02-16 23:43:07 +01:00

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