Implement Velocity VarInt optimizations (#8418)

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Co-authored-by: Owen1212055 <23108066+Owen1212055@users.noreply.github.com>

patches/server/1039-Add-player-idle-duration-API.patch

@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ Subject: [PATCH] Add player idle duration API
 Implements API for getting and resetting a player's idle duration.
 
 diff --git a/src/main/java/org/bukkit/craftbukkit/entity/CraftPlayer.java b/src/main/java/org/bukkit/craftbukkit/entity/CraftPlayer.java
-index 604ed1f6742a6b028b9db2809f7bd4b9a3b38f4d..bd2cb9080a5a215c97d4dc038ab8e8d1f7c20f8f 100644
+index 57229748ae446d70dbc3d71219d9f81f5c8f72b1..743b3c952e01de44905cacac3ffd501e2059238f 100644
 --- a/src/main/java/org/bukkit/craftbukkit/entity/CraftPlayer.java
 +++ b/src/main/java/org/bukkit/craftbukkit/entity/CraftPlayer.java
-@@ -3278,6 +3278,18 @@ public class CraftPlayer extends CraftHumanEntity implements Player {
+@@ -3280,6 +3280,18 @@ public class CraftPlayer extends CraftHumanEntity implements Player {
      }
      // Paper end
  

patches/server/1041-Allow-null-itemstack-for-Player-sendEquipmentChange.patch

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Subject: [PATCH] Allow null itemstack for Player#sendEquipmentChange
 
 
 diff --git a/src/main/java/org/bukkit/craftbukkit/entity/CraftPlayer.java b/src/main/java/org/bukkit/craftbukkit/entity/CraftPlayer.java
-index 57229748ae446d70dbc3d71219d9f81f5c8f72b1..cce782907821b4f84fa865574a7483291369eac7 100644
+index 743b3c952e01de44905cacac3ffd501e2059238f..4f237880cf53ec2eb4e7c93dccc168bbb682f473 100644
 --- a/src/main/java/org/bukkit/craftbukkit/entity/CraftPlayer.java
 +++ b/src/main/java/org/bukkit/craftbukkit/entity/CraftPlayer.java
 @@ -1072,7 +1072,7 @@ public class CraftPlayer extends CraftHumanEntity implements Player {

patches/server/1042-Optimize-VarInts.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Owen1212055 <23108066+Owen1212055@users.noreply.github.com>
+Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 19:46:21 -0400
+Subject: [PATCH] Optimize VarInts
+
+https://github.com/PaperMC/Paper/pull/6957#issuecomment-985250854
+
+diff --git a/src/main/java/net/minecraft/network/VarInt.java b/src/main/java/net/minecraft/network/VarInt.java
+index 18d5a22ad3ef4cb279475531dbc2c65e07c69929..3f362eb42587b333e27b9cf25588a9cfcb8a56e7 100644
+--- a/src/main/java/net/minecraft/network/VarInt.java
++++ b/src/main/java/net/minecraft/network/VarInt.java
+@@ -9,6 +9,18 @@ public class VarInt {
+     private static final int DATA_BITS_PER_BYTE = 7;
+ 
+     public static int getByteSize(int i) {
++    // Paper start - Optimize VarInts
++        return VARINT_EXACT_BYTE_LENGTHS[Integer.numberOfLeadingZeros(i)];
++    }
++    private static final int[] VARINT_EXACT_BYTE_LENGTHS = new int[33];
++    static {
++        for (int i = 0; i <= 32; ++i) {
++            VARINT_EXACT_BYTE_LENGTHS[i] = (int) Math.ceil((31d - (i - 1)) / 7d);
++        }
++        VARINT_EXACT_BYTE_LENGTHS[32] = 1; // Special case for the number 0.
++    }
++    public static int getByteSizeOld(int i) {
++    //Paper end - Optimize VarInts
+         for(int j = 1; j < 5; ++j) {
+             if ((i & -1 << j * 7) == 0) {
+                 return j;
+@@ -39,6 +51,21 @@ public class VarInt {
+     }
+ 
+     public static ByteBuf write(ByteBuf buf, int i) {
++     // Paper start - Optimize VarInts
++        // Peel the one and two byte count cases explicitly as they are the most common VarInt sizes
++        // that the proxy will write, to improve inlining.
++        if ((i & (0xFFFFFFFF << 7)) == 0) {
++            buf.writeByte(i);
++        } else if ((i & (0xFFFFFFFF << 14)) == 0) {
++            int w = (i & 0x7F | 0x80) << 8 | (i >>> 7);
++            buf.writeShort(w);
++        } else {
++            writeOld(buf, i);
++        }
++        return buf;
++    }
++    public static ByteBuf writeOld(ByteBuf buf, int i) {
++    // Paper end - Optimize VarInts
+         while((i & -128) != 0) {
+             buf.writeByte(i & 127 | 128);
+             i >>>= 7;