... also move some common configuration into the root build.gradle-file.
Support for JDK21 in lombok is a bit sketchy at the moment, but it seems to work. This upgrade is kind of important as the new index construction really benefits from Arena based lifecycle control over off-heap memory.
* Utilities for merging BTrees of entity size 1 and 2.
* Isolate and clean up sorting algorithms.
* Functions for keeping distinct items in a LongArray
