Don't generate type IDs for formal generic instances #11167
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The compiler traverses through every instantiation of a generic class type when it generates unique IDs for every type's metaclass for the
Object#class
primitive. This includes formal types:This PR skips those types because they can never be encountered in any real program. This reduces the number of unique types in a blank source file by about 21%; see here for a comparison.