Using `std::uint_least32_t` instead of `std::size_t` halves the required memory
and thus also improves performance.
Notice that `std::uint32_t` is optional and `std::uint_fast32_t` is intended to be
fast in terms of computations and may have 64 bits. Here we're interested in reducing
memory and thus bandwith. Hence `std::uint_least32_t`, which is the smallest sufficient
type is most appropriate.

This replaces the `std::set` used to store the column indices for each
rows by a `std::vector` based implementation. The `std::vector` is
kept sorted when inserting such that we can avoid duplicates. This
can improve assembly time of matrices significantly (if `MatrixIndexSet` is used).

In the worst case (insertion in reverse) this may lead to O(n^2) complexity
when inserting n entries in a row compared to O(n log(n)) for `std::set`.
However, the sorted `std::vector` implementation still wins for relatively
large n. To avoid the worst case complexity when using very dense rows,
the implementation is switched to `std::set` if the size exceeds the threshold
value `maxVectorSize`. The default `maxVectorSize=2048` was selected based
on benchmark results.

See https://reuse.software/ for a description.

[[Imported from SVN: r1545]]

Thanks to Uli Sack for the Patch.

[[Imported from SVN: r1544]]

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* update configure and Makefiles

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has to be adapted.

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contain any entries at all.  This is needed because currently BCRSMatrix
doesn't allow rows that are completely empty.

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a set of (i,j) integer pairs.  Pairs can be added to the matrix
in any order.  A MatrixIndexSet can be used to initialize a
BCRSMatrix via the exportIdx method.

MatrixIndexSets are meant to help with the sometimes unwieldy
BCRSMatrix class.  If that class' handling gets easier, (or
if somebody explain to me how BCRSMatrix are really supposed
to be used), MatrixIndexSets may very well disappear again.

[[Imported from SVN: r134]]