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Replace manual use of index newtypes `bundles[bundle.index()]` with `Index` impls and typed `Vec` wrappers

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
compilers

Research direction

Search the repository for occurrences of self.bundles[bundle.index()] and similar manual indexing, then inspect the LiveBundleIndex, VRegIndex, and related index newtypes. Define the scope of the typed Vec wrappers and Index implementations from those usages. Done means the identified manual index conversions are replaced consistently without changing behavior.

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Description

Right now, regalloc2 uses an entity-component-system sort of pattern with toplevel Vecs of LiveBundle, VRegData, and the like, and newtype'd index wrappers like LiveBundleIndex, VRegIndex, etc. We have a whole bunch of instances of self.bundles[bundle.index()]....

Ideally we would make bundles a Vec-wrapper type that has an Index implementation that natively takes LiveBundleIndex, and then we could make all of these sites slightly less verbose.

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