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request. This can be conceived as an alternate, more capable resolution of
https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/12200
than
https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/12208
The code re-org idea here is to upgrade tablimpl.nim:`delImpl`/`delImplIdx`
to abstract client code conventions for cell emptiness & cell hashing via
three new template arguments - `makeEmpty`, `cellEmpty`, `cellHash` which
all take a single integer argument and clear a cell, test if clear or
produce the hash of the key stored at that index in `.data[]`.
Then we update the 3 call sites (`Table`, `CountTable`, `SharedTable`) of
`delImpl`/`delImplIdx` by defining define those arguments just before the
first invocation as non-exported templates.
Because `CountTable` does not save hash() outputs as `.hcode`, it needs a
new tableimpl.nim:`delImplNoHCode` which simply in-lines the hash search
when no `.hcode` field is available for "prefix compare" acceleration.
It is conceivable this new template could be used by future variants, such
as one optimized for integer keys where `hash()` and `==` are fast and
`.hcode` is both wasted space & time (though a small change to interfaces
there for a sentinel key meaning "empty" is needed for maximum efficiency).
We also eliminate the old O(n) `proc remove(CountTable...)` in favor of
simply invoking the new `delImpl*` templates and take care to correctly
handle the case where `val` is either zero for non-existent keys in `inc`
or evolves to zero over time in `[]=` or `inc`.
The only user-visible changes from the +-42 delta here are speed, iteration
order post deletes, and relaxing the `Positive` constraint on `val` in
`proc inc` again, as indicated in the `changelog.md` entry.
(cherry picked from commit b2a1944587)