subranges: migrate handling of single element range This is the simplest case by far, so we start with that one. We still use the rich object as an argument, but we'll do our best to not relying on that. This is important for performance reason.

stablerange: move the subrange cache into our new class This is the first step toward having more logic in that class

depth: extract code dedicated to depth of a merge in its own function The merge case is more complicated than the regular one, we extract is for the sake of clarity.