Implement minimal support for generic buffers #3315

Job	Run time
Determine compiler version from git tag	1s
Ubuntu dev container/Debug	33m 0s
Native: macos-13/debug/Ninja	39m 43s
Ubuntu dev container/Release	21m 23s
Native: macos-13/debug/Xcode	15m 53s
Native: macos-13/release/Ninja	23m 5s
Native: macos-13/release/Xcode	12m 34s
Native: ubuntu-latest/debug/Ninja	32m 11s
Native: ubuntu-latest/release/Ninja	20m 42s
Native: windows-latest/debug/Ninja	11m 19s
Native: windows-latest/release/Ninja	16m 55s
	3h 46m 46s

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