This is just a useful type to have to make the code a bit more
readable.
This doesn't affect the code that much, except we are making more
on-stack copies of mptrs since the mdir doesn't technically contain
a mutable mptr. Maybe this should change?
code stack
before: 30768 2496
after: 30776 (+0.0%) 2504 (+0.3%)
Christopher Haster
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