Remove some `as` casts (#809) #2175

Job	Run time
Rustfmt (stable)	5s
clippy_check (ubuntu-latest, stable)	41s
Build and Test (ubuntu-latest, 1.70)	2m 17s
clippy_check (ubuntu-latest, nightly)	56s
clippy_check (windows-latest, stable)	1m 42s
Build and Test (ubuntu-latest, 1.75)	2m 2s
clippy_check (windows-latest, nightly)	2m 4s
Build and Test (ubuntu-latest, 1.80)	2m 1s
Build and Test (ubuntu-latest, stable)	4m 28s
Build and Test (ubuntu-latest, beta)	1m 51s
Build and Test (ubuntu-latest, nightly)	1m 39s
Build and Test (windows-latest, 1.70)	3m 27s
Build and Test (windows-latest, 1.75)	3m 22s
Build and Test (windows-latest, 1.80)	3m 18s
Build and Test (windows-latest, stable)	4m 25s
Build and Test (windows-latest, beta)	3m 1s
Build and Test (windows-latest, nightly)	3m 0s
Tests result	1s
	40m 20s

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