They are somewhat expensive (in code size at least) and not needed
everywhere.
Inside the getter the variables are 'const data_type&', so we can
return that. Everything still works when a copy is needed, but in code
that just wants to check a property we avoid the copy.
Signed-off-by: Rafael Ávila de Espíndola <espindola@scylladb.com>
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