Auto merge of #115870 - RalfJung:const-value-slice, r=oli-obk

adjust ConstValue::Slice to work for arbitrary slice types

valtrees have already been assuming that this works; this PR makes it a reality. Also further restrict `ConstValue::Slice` to what it is actually used for; this even shrinks `ConstValue` from 32 to 24 bytes which is a nice win. :)

The alternative to this approach is to make `ConstValue::Slice` work really only for `&str`/`&[u8]` literals, and never return it in `op_to_const`. That would make `op_to_const` very clean. We could then even remove the `meta` field; the length would always be `data.inner().len()`. We could *almost* just use a `Symbol` instead of a `ConstAllocation`, but we have to support byte strings and there doesn't seem to be an interned representation of them (or rather, `ConstAllocation` *is* their interned representation). In this world, valtrees of slice reference types would then become noticeably more expensive to turn into a `ConstValue` -- but does that matter? Specifically for `&str`/`&[u8]` we could still use the optimized representation if we wanted.

If byte strings were already interned somewhere I'd gravitate towards the alternative, but the way things stand, we need a `ConstAllocation` case anyway to support byte strings, and then we might as well support arbitrary slices. (Or we say that byte strings don't get an optimized representation at all. Such a performance cliff between `str` and byte strings is probably unexpected, though due to the lack of interning for byte strings I think there might already be a performance cliff there.)

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