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This makes SumTypes smaller. They should now only take up however much room the largest variant needed, plus a discriminator byte, plus alignment bits.
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Downside is that the sum types now have extra type parameters relating to the computed storage. They could be eliminated for sum types without parameters, but in general they're necessary unless we get JuliaLang/julia#8472 (comment).