💥 Use ExternalStorageReference proto for payload references (#1486) #693

Job	Run time
compile-binaries (ubuntu-arm, linux-aarch64, ubuntu-24.04-arm64-2-core)	9m 41s
compile-binaries (ubuntu-latest, linux-amd64)	8m 11s
compile-binaries (macos-arm, macos-aarch64, macos-14)	6m 23s
compile-binaries (macos-intel, macos-amd64, macos-15-intel)	19m 28s
compile-binaries (windows-latest, windows-amd64)	10m 40s
	54m 23s

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