ASIC DB optimizations #676
Description
Similarly to how we optimized App DB, we would like to do the same for ASIC DB in an effort to reduce memory footprint, especially for DPU scale.
Prior PRs done for APP_DB involved using protobuf instead of strings to store key value pairs, but the scope of work for ASIC_DB seems to be more in the sense that we are not just looking for optimizing memory but we want to get rid of dash objects entirely from ASIC_DB.