lance-format / lance-format/lance

Investigate compile times in lance-encoding package

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Since Jan 7, 2025.

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The lance-encoding package is fairly lightweight in dependencies and yet it takes a long time to compile. It's gotten bad enough it is starting to have an impact on development speed. I suspect there is some low hanging fruit regarding the macro generation we use for FSST and / or bitpacking. We should move this macro code into isolated modules that don't need to be rebuilt as much to keep the compiles times for lance-encoding small.

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