Add epoch-based interruption for cooperative async timeslicing.
This PR introduces a new way of performing cooperative timeslicing that is intended to replace the "fuel" mechanism. The tradeoff is that this mechanism interrupts with less precision: not at deterministic points where fuel runs out, but rather when the Engine enters a new epoch. The generated code instrumentation is substantially faster, however, because it does not need to do as much work as when tracking fuel; it only loads the global "epoch counter" and does a compare-and-branch at backedges and function prologues. This change has been measured as ~twice as fast as fuel-based timeslicing for some workloads, especially control-flow-intensive workloads such as the SpiderMonkey JS interpreter on Wasm/WASI. The intended interface is that the embedder of the `Engine` performs an `engine.increment_epoch()` call periodically, e.g. once per millisecond. An async invocation of a Wasm guest on a `Store` can specify a number of epoch-ticks that are allowed before an async yield back to the executor's event loop. (The initial amount and automatic "refills" are configured on the `Store`, just as for fuel.) This call does only signal-safe work (it increments an `AtomicU64`) so could be invoked from a periodic signal, or from a thread that wakes up once per period.
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@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ macro_rules! foreach_builtin_function {
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memory_atomic_wait64(vmctx, i32, pointer, i64, i64) -> (i32);
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/// Invoked when fuel has run out while executing a function.
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out_of_gas(vmctx) -> ();
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/// Invoked when we reach a new epoch.
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new_epoch(vmctx) -> (i64);
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}
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};
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}
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