Implement compressed Namespace (#2856)
The namespace disambiguates requests for the same name with _<idx>. Rather than storing every disambiguated name in the underlying HashMap, it now only stores the base along with the "next available" index. This makes the logic for checking if a name is already contained in the namespace slightly more sophisticated because users can name things in a way that will collide with disambiguated names from a common substring. For example, in naming the sequence "foo", "foo", "foo_1", the 2nd "foo" takes the name "foo_1" so the following "foo_1" gets disambiguated to "foo_1_1". But since we compressed that original "foo_1" into the same HashMap entry as just "foo", we have to do a form of "prefix checking" whenever naming something that ends in "_<idx>". In practice, the saved memory allocations more than make up for the more complicated logic to disambiguate names because the common case is still fast.
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