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## Issue Addressed Alternative to #2935 ## Proposed Changes Replace the `Vec<u8>` inside `Bitfield` with a `SmallVec<[u8; 32>`. This eliminates heap allocations for attestation bitfields until we reach 500K validators, at which point we can consider increasing `SMALLVEC_LEN` to 40 or 48. While running Lighthouse under `heaptrack` I found that SSZ encoding and decoding of bitfields corresponded to 22% of all allocations by count. I've confirmed that with this change applied those allocations disappear entirely. ## Additional Info We can win another 8 bytes of space by using `smallvec`'s [`union` feature](https://docs.rs/smallvec/1.8.0/smallvec/#union), although I might leave that for a future PR because I don't know how experimental that feature is and whether it uses some spicy `unsafe` blocks. |
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