Make 8-byte tiny size class non-optional.
When tiny size class support was first added, it was intended to support truly tiny size classes (even 2 bytes). However, this wasn't very useful in practice, so the minimum tiny size class has been limited to sizeof(void *) for a long time now. This is too small to be standards compliant, but other commonly used malloc implementations do not even bother using a 16-byte quantum on systems with vector units (SSE2+, AltiVEC, etc.). As such, it is safe in practice to support an 8-byte tiny size class on 64-bit systems that support 16-byte types.
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