[WIP] Re-shaping the canonical variant array to support more general …

[AdamGS]

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[codspeed-hq]

Merging this PR will improve performance by 31.27%

⚡ 26 improved benchmarks
✅ 1137 untouched benchmarks

Performance Changes

	Mode	Benchmark	BASE	HEAD	Efficiency
⚡	Simulation	take_search[(0.005, 0.1)]	319.5 µs	246.5 µs	+29.63%
⚡	Simulation	take_search[(0.005, 0.05)]	167.3 µs	130.7 µs	+28.01%
⚡	Simulation	take_search[(0.005, 1.0)]	3.1 ms	2.3 ms	+31.27%
⚡	Simulation	take_search[(0.01, 0.05)]	178.5 µs	141.9 µs	+25.8%
⚡	Simulation	take_search[(0.01, 0.1)]	340.4 µs	267.4 µs	+27.31%
⚡	Simulation	take_search[(0.01, 1.0)]	3.3 ms	2.5 ms	+28.78%
⚡	Simulation	take_search_chunked[(0.005, 0.1)]	383.3 µs	321.3 µs	+19.31%
⚡	Simulation	take_search[(0.1, 1.0)]	4.3 ms	3.5 ms	+20.65%
⚡	Simulation	take_search[(0.1, 0.1)]	458 µs	384.8 µs	+19.02%
⚡	Simulation	take_search_chunked[(0.005, 0.05)]	199.8 µs	168.8 µs	+18.4%
⚡	Simulation	take_search[(0.01, 0.5)]	1.6 ms	1.3 ms	+28.6%
⚡	Simulation	take_search[(0.1, 0.5)]	2.2 ms	1.8 ms	+20.41%
⚡	Simulation	take_search[(0.1, 0.05)]	248.3 µs	211.6 µs	+17.34%
⚡	Simulation	take_search[(0.005, 0.5)]	1.5 ms	1.2 ms	+31.06%
⚡	Simulation	take_search_chunked[(0.005, 0.5)]	1.9 ms	1.5 ms	+20.07%
⚡	Simulation	take_search_chunked[(0.005, 1.0)]	3.7 ms	3.1 ms	+20.17%
⚡	Simulation	take_search_chunked[(0.01, 0.05)]	212.5 µs	181.5 µs	+17.11%
⚡	Simulation	take_search_chunked[(0.01, 0.1)]	407.8 µs	345.8 µs	+17.92%
⚡	Simulation	take_search_chunked[(0.01, 0.5)]	2 ms	1.7 ms	+18.63%
⚡	Simulation	take_search_chunked[(0.01, 1.0)]	3.9 ms	3.3 ms	+18.72%
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_{Comparing adamg/variant-array (f97b78e) with develop (cc06c60)}