[llvm] [CAS] Add LLVMCAS library with InMemoryCAS implementation (PR #114096)

[Paul Kirth via llvm-commits]

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+# Content Addressable Storage
+
+## Introduction to CAS
+
+Content Addressable Storage, or `CAS`, is a storage system where it assigns
+unique addresses to the data stored. It is very useful for data deduplicaton
+and creating unique identifiers.
+
+Unlikely other kind of storage system like file system, CAS is immutable. It
+is more reliable to model a computation when representing the inputs and outputs
+of the computation using objects stored in CAS.
+
+The basic unit of the CAS library is a CASObject, where it contains:
+
+* Data: arbitrary data
+* References: references to other CASObject
+
+It can be conceptually modeled as something like:
+
+```
+struct CASObject {
+  ArrayRef<char> Data;
+  ArrayRef<CASObject*> Refs;
+}
+```
+
+Such abstraction can allow simple composition of CASObjects into a DAG to
+represent complicated data structure while still allowing data deduplication.
+Note you can compare two DAGs by just comparing the CASObject hash of two
+root nodes.
+
+
+
+## LLVM CAS Library User Guide
+
+The CAS-like storage provided in LLVM is `llvm::cas::ObjectStore`.
+To reference a CASObject, there are few different abstractions provided
+with different trade-offs:
+
+### ObjectRef
+
+`ObjectRef` is a lightweight reference to a CASObject stored in the CAS.
+This is the most commonly used abstraction and it is cheap to copy/pass
+along. It has following properties:
+
+* `ObjectRef` is only meaningful within the `ObjectStore` that created the ref.
+`ObjectRef` created by different `ObjectStore` cannot be cross-referenced or
+compared.
+* `ObjectRef` doesn't guarantee the existence of the CASObject it points to. An
+explicitly load is required before accessing the data stored in CASObject.
+This load can also fail, for reasons like but not limited to: object does
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ilovepi wrote:

```suggestion
This load can also fail, for reasons like (but not limited to): object does
```


https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/114096