This saves on comptime format string parsing, as the compiler caches
comptime calls. The catch here, is that parsePlaceHolder cannot take the
placeholder string as a slice. It must take it as an array by value for
the caching to occure.
There is also some logic in here that ensures that the specifier_arg is
always them same slice when the items they contain are the same. This
makes the compiler stamp out less copies of formatType.
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