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Rollup merge of #120116 - the8472:only-same-alignments, r=cuviper
Remove alignment-changing in-place collect
This removes the alignment-changing in-place collect optimization introduced in #110353
Currently stable users can't benefit from the optimization because GlobaAlloc doesn't support alignment-changing realloc and neither do most posix allocators. So in practice it has a negative impact on performance.
Explanation from #120091 (comment):
> > You mention that in case of alignment mismatch -- when the new alignment is less than the old -- the implementation calls `mremap`.
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> I was trying to note that this isn't really the case in practice, due to the semantics of Rust's allocator APIs. The only use of the allocator within the `in_place_collect` implementation itself is [a call to `Allocator::shrink()`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/db7125f008cfd72e8951c9a863178956e2cbacc3/library/alloc/src/vec/in_place_collect.rs#L299-L303), which per its documentation [allows decreasing the required alignment](https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.75.0/core/alloc/trait.Allocator.html). However, in stable Rust, the only available `Allocator` is [`Global`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.75.0/alloc/alloc/struct.Global.html), which delegates to the registered `GlobalAlloc`. Since `GlobalAlloc::realloc()` [cannot change the required alignment](https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.75.0/core/alloc/trait.GlobalAlloc.html#method.realloc), the implementation of [`<Global as Allocator>::shrink()`](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/db7125f008cfd72e8951c9a863178956e2cbacc3/library/alloc/src/alloc.rs#L280-L321) must fall back to creating a brand-new allocation, `memcpy`ing the data into it, and freeing the old allocation, whenever the alignment doesn't remain exactly the same.
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> Therefore, the underlying allocator, provided by libc or some other source, has no opportunity to internally `mremap()` the data when the alignment is changed, since it has no way of knowing that the allocation is the same.
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