Rename MaybeUninit::write_slice

[kornelski]

A step to push #79995 forward.

rust-lang/libs-team#122 also suggested to make them inherent methods, but they can't be — they'd conflict with slice's regular methods.

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☔ The latest upstream changes (presumably #117736) made this pull request unmergeable. Please resolve the merge conflicts.

[joshtriplett]

r? libs-api

[Amanieu]

@bors r+

[bors]

📌 Commit da3db9a has been approved by Amanieu

It is now in the queue for this repository.

[bors]

⌛ Testing commit da3db9a with merge ae9d7b0...

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☀️ Test successful - checks-actions
Approved by: Amanieu
Pushing ae9d7b0 to master...

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Finished benchmarking commit (ae9d7b0): comparison URL.

Overall result: ❌✅ regressions and improvements - no action needed

@rustbot label: -perf-regression

Instruction count

This is a highly reliable metric that was used to determine the overall result at the top of this comment.

	mean	range	count
Regressions ❌ (primary)	-	-	0
Regressions ❌ (secondary)	0.5%	[0.5%, 0.5%]	1
Improvements ✅ (primary)	-	-	0
Improvements ✅ (secondary)	-0.4%	[-0.4%, -0.4%]	1
All ❌✅ (primary)	-	-	0

Max RSS (memory usage)

Results

This is a less reliable metric that may be of interest but was not used to determine the overall result at the top of this comment.

	mean	range	count
Regressions ❌ (primary)	-	-	0
Regressions ❌ (secondary)	-	-	0
Improvements ✅ (primary)	-3.7%	[-3.7%, -3.7%]	1
Improvements ✅ (secondary)	-	-	0
All ❌✅ (primary)	-3.7%	[-3.7%, -3.7%]	1

Cycles

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Binary size

This benchmark run did not return any relevant results for this metric.

Bootstrap: 639.642s -> 638.61s (-0.16%)
Artifact size: 306.35 MiB -> 306.35 MiB (0.00%)