feat: move fsl handling to structural encodings and add support for miniblock #3324
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Previously we had some support for FSL in the full zip encoder by treating FSL as a "compression". Implementing this the same way in miniblock was rather tricky and it seemed more correct to handle FSL at the structural layer.
Now the structural encoding flattens data and the compression layer just sees a larger array of items and is unaware of any FSL. We may need to revisit this decision in the future if we want to add a "vector compression" algorithm but, as none exists yet, we can worry about that later.