WIP: Variant Type #6853

Performance Regression: -20.89%

❌ 5 regressed benchmarks
✅ 995 untouched benchmarks
⏩ 1466 skipped benchmarks¹

⚠️ Please fix the performance issues or acknowledge them on CodSpeed.

	Mode	Benchmark	`BASE`	`HEAD`	Efficiency
❌	Simulation	`bench_many_nulls[0.9]`	468.5 µs	533.8 µs	-12.24%
❌	Simulation	`patched_take_200k_first_chunk_only`	4.8 ms	5.4 ms	-10.69%
❌	Simulation	`patched_take_200k_dispersed`	4.7 ms	5.6 ms	-16.59%
❌	Simulation	`take_200k_first_chunk_only`	3.3 ms	4.2 ms	-20.89%
❌	Simulation	`take_200k_dispersed`	3.6 ms	4.5 ms	-19.61%

_{Comparing adamg/variant (83828b2) with develop (1bb7e68)}

1466 benchmarks were skipped, so the baseline results were used instead. If they were deleted from the codebase, click here and archive them to remove them from the performance reports. ↩