in gc_refs, even at the cost of putting back a test+branch in
visit_decref.

The good news:  since gc_refs became utterly tame then, it became
clear that another special value could be useful.  The move_roots() and
move_root_reachable() passes have now been replaced by a single
move_unreachable() pass.  Besides saving a pass over the generation, this
has a better effect:  most of the time everything turns out to be
reachable, so we were breaking the generation list apart and moving it
into into the reachable list, one element at a time.  Now the reachable
stuff stays in the generation list, and the unreachable stuff is moved
instead.  This isn't quite as good as it sounds, since sometimes we
guess wrongly that a thing is unreachable, and have to move it back again.

Still, overall, it yields a significant (but not dramatic) boost in
collection speed.