Represent small values as single bytes #16227

Job	Run time
build-sway-lib-core	1m 28s
build-sway-lib-std	2m 17s
build-reference-examples	1m 55s
build-sway-examples	2m 13s
build-forc-doc-sway-lib-std	3m 50s
forc-fmt-check-sway-examples	1m 43s
build-forc-test-project	6m 44s
build-mdbook	4m 59s
forc-fmt-check-panic	2m 12s
cargo-build-workspace	5m 10s
cargo-clippy	1m 16s
cargo-fmt-check	18s
cargo-run-e2e-test	32m 36s
cargo-toml-fmt-check	18s
cargo-run-e2e-test-evm	5m 9s
cargo-run-e2e-test-midenvm	5m 15s
cargo-test-lib-std	3m 16s
forc-pkg-fuels-deps-check	29s
forc-run-benchmarks	4m 47s
forc-unit-tests	2m 42s
cargo-test-workspace	20m 52s
cargo-unused-deps-check	5m 28s
pre-publish-check	0s
build-publish-master-image	0s
publish	0s
notify-slack-on-failure	0s
build-publish-release-image	0s
Build and upload forc binaries to release	0s
	1h 54m 57s

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