This file provides translation routines for ring positions and clustering positions
from Scylla's native in-memory structures to BTI's byte-comparable encoding.
This translation is performed whenever a new decorated key or clustering block
are added to a BTI index, and whenever a BTI index is queried for a range of positions.
For a description of the encoding, see
fad1f74570/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/utils/bytecomparable/ByteComparable.md (multi-component-sequences-partition-or-clustering-keys-tuples-bounds-and-nulls)
The translation logic, with all the fragment awareness, lazy
evaluation and avoidable copies, is fairly bloated for the common cases
of simple and small keys. This is a potential optimization target for later.
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