Switch serde dependency to serde_core for v2
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serde_core has just been released. Crates that don't depend on serde derive macros should use it instead of
serde, as it speeds up compile times by having the build for the crate itself be independent fromserde-derive(in case it were to be enabled by some other crate). See the serde_core docs for more info.On my Ryzen 5 5500U, the clean release build time for just
smallvecin a project containingsmallvecwith theserdefeature enabled, andserdewith thederivefeature enabled, went from 4.61s to 2.34s.