Represent small values as single bytes #16644

Job	Run time
build-sway-examples	2m 2s
build-sway-lib-core	1m 3s
build-sway-lib-std	1m 15s
build-forc-test-project	11m 30s
build-forc-doc-sway-lib-std	3m 53s
build-mdbook	5m 52s
build-reference-examples	2m 5s
forc-fmt-check-panic	1m 32s
forc-fmt-check-sway-examples	56s
cargo-build-workspace	5m 26s
cargo-clippy	1m 46s
cargo-fmt-check	15s
cargo-toml-fmt-check	17s
cargo-run-e2e-test-evm	2m 29s
cargo-run-e2e-test	47m 9s
cargo-run-e2e-test-midenvm	2m 34s
cargo-test-lib-std	5m 4s
forc-run-benchmarks	3m 21s
cargo-test-workspace	36m 46s
cargo-unused-deps-check	3m 29s
forc-pkg-fuels-deps-check	27s
forc-unit-tests	3m 0s
pre-publish-check	0s
notify-slack-on-failure	2s
build-publish-master-image	0s
publish	0s
build-publish-release-image	0s
Build and upload forc binaries to release	0s
	2h 22m 13s

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