Michael Bolin 53cf12cd52 build: reduce Rust dev debuginfo (#18844)
## What changed

This PR makes the default Cargo dev profile use line-tables-only debug
info:

```toml
[profile.dev]
debug = 1
```

That keeps useful backtraces while avoiding the cost of full variable
debug
info in normal local dev builds.

This also makes the Bazel CI setting explicit with `-Cdebuginfo=0` for
target
and exec-configuration Rust actions. Bazel/rules_rust does not read
Cargo
profiles for this setting, and the current fastbuild action already
emitted
`--codegen=debuginfo=0`; the Bazel part of this PR makes that choice
direct in
our build configuration.

## Why

The slow codex-core rebuilds are dominated by debug-info codegen, not
parsing
or type checking. On a warm-dependency package rebuild, the baseline
codex-core compile was about 39.5s wall / 38.9s rustc total, with
codegen_crate around 14.0s and LLVM_passes around 13.4s. Setting
codex-core
to line-tables-only debug info brought that to about 27.2s wall / 26.7s
rustc
total, with codegen_crate around 3.1s and LLVM_passes around 2.8s.

`debug = 0` was only about another 0.7s faster than `debug = 1` in the
codex-core measurement, so `debug = 1` is the better default dev
tradeoff: it
captures nearly all of the compile-time win while preserving basic
debuggability.

I also sampled other first-party crates instead of keeping a
codex-core-only
package override. codex-app-server showed the same pattern: rustc total
dropped from 15.85s to 10.48s, while codegen_crate plus LLVM_passes
dropped
from about 13.47s to 3.23s. codex-app-server-protocol had a smaller but
still
real improvement, 16.05s to 14.58s total, and smaller crates showed
modest
wins. That points to a workspace dev-profile policy rather than a
hand-maintained list of large crates.

## Relationship to #18612

[#18612](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/18612) added the
`dev-small`
profile. That remains useful when someone wants a working local build
quickly
and is willing to opt in with `cargo build --profile dev-small`.

This PR is deliberately less aggressive: it changes the common default
dev
profile while preserving line tables/backtraces. `dev-small` remains the
explicit "build quickly, no debuggability concern" path.

## Other investigation

I looked for another structural win comparable to
[#16631](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/16631) and
[#16630](https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/16630), but did not find
one.
The attempted TOML monomorphization changes were noisy or worse in
measurement, and the async task changes reduced some instantiations but
only
translated to roughly a one-second improvement while being much more
disruptive. The debug-info setting was the one repeatable, material win
that
survived measurement.

## Verification

- `just bazel-lock-update`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
- `cargo check -p codex-core --lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --lib`
- Bazel `aquery --config=ci-linux` confirmed `--codegen=debuginfo=0` and
  `-Cdebuginfo=0` for `//codex-rs/core:core`


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