We make read_record faster by not allocating Vec if not needed. This is
why I introduced a simple `SmallVec<T>` that will have a stack allocated
list for the simplest workloads, and a heap allocated if we were to
require more stuff.
Both read_varint and read_value, at least in my mac m4, were not
inlined. Since these functions are called so many times it made sense to
inline them to avoid call overhead. With this I saw something like 20%
improvement over previous commit in my m4.