Previously, they were storing a low-bit flag that indicated that they
were a default actor. Using an extra inhabitant frees up the low bit
for future use without being conspicuously more expensive to check.
- Introduce an UnownedSerialExecutor type into the concurrency library.
- Create a SerialExecutor protocol which allows an executor type to
change how it executes jobs.
- Add an unownedExecutor requirement to the Actor protocol.
- Change the ABI for ExecutorRef so that it stores a SerialExecutor
witness table pointer in the implementation field. This effectively
makes ExecutorRef an `unowned(unsafe) SerialExecutor`, except that
default actors are represented without a witness table pointer (just
a bit-pattern).
- Synthesize the unownedExecutor method for default actors (i.e. actors
that don't provide an unownedExecutor property).
- Make synthesized unownedExecutor properties `final`, and give them
a semantics attribute specifying that they're for default actors.
- Split `Builtin.buildSerialExecutorRef` into a few more precise
builtins. We're not using the main-actor one yet, though.
Pitch thread:
https://forums.swift.org/t/support-custom-executors-in-swift-concurrency/44425
- stop storing the parent task in the TaskGroup at the .swift level
- make sure that swift_taskGroup_isCancelled is implied by the parent
task being cancelled
- make the TaskGroup structs frozen
- make the withTaskGroup functions inlinable
- remove swift_taskGroup_create
- teach IRGen to allocate memory for the task group
- don't deallocate the task group in swift_taskGroup_destroy
To achieve the allocation change, introduce paired create/destroy builtins.
Furthermore, remove the _swiftRetain and _swiftRelease functions and
several calls to them. Replace them with uses of the appropriate builtins.
I should probably change the builtins to return retained, since they're
working with a managed type, but I'll do that in a separate commit.
