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What does this PR do?

Add a hand-rolled Rust encoder for metrics V3 payload format.

Motivation

For performance and compatibility reasons we don't want to rely on a generated encoder (which also vendors the protobuf dependency), so we add the hand-rolled version and guardrails to ensure that we can catch changes in the .proto definition.

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This commit adds tests which compare wire payloads created by this encoder vs payloads created by a generated encoder - those must match.

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Add a hand-rolled Rust encoder for metrics V3 payload format.

For performance and compatibility reasons we don't want to rely on a
generated encoder (which also vendors the protobuf dependency), so we
add the hand-rolled version and guardrails to ensure that we can catch
changes in the `.proto` definition.

Signed-off-by: Mark Kirichenko <mark.kirichenko@datadoghq.com>
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Comment thread metrics/dd-metrics-v3/src/writer.rs
The V3 writer interned each metric's tag ids in caller-supplied order but
only sorted the emitted dictionary entry. The same logical tag set given in
different orders (e.g. `["a","b"]` vs `["b","a"]`) therefore produced distinct
`tagsetRefs` and duplicate `dictTagsets` entries instead of deduplicating,
inflating payloads for producers with unstable tag ordering.

Sort `tag_ids` before interning so the interner key matches the canonical
on-wire (sorted) form; drop the now-redundant sort in `encode_tagset`. For a
unique tag set the output is byte-identical; reordered duplicates now collapse
to one ref and one dictionary entry.

Add a unit test covering order-independent dedup, and criterion benchmarks
(`benches/tagset.rs`) quantifying the added sort's cost on the cache-hit path
(low-single-digit-percent, near-zero for typical tag counts).

Signed-off-by: Mark Kirichenko <mark.kirichenko@datadoghq.com>

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Kirichenko <mark.kirichenko@datadoghq.com>
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