Doug Gregor c2ba06c3d2 Make the actor transport an associated type of the DistributedActor protocol. ...

Eliminate the required use of existentials in distributed actors by
introducing the `Transport` associated type into the
`DistributedActor` protocol. Each distributed actor has a known
(concrete) actor transport type, reducing storage requirements and
transport dynamism when it isn't needed.

Distributed actors can manually specify their `Transport` associated
type or pick up a default by looking for a type named
`DefaultActorTransport`. A library that vends an actor transport can
make create a public typealias `DefaultActorTransport` referring to
its transport, so importing that library and defining a distributed
actor will use that library's transport.

Introduce a type-erased `AnyActorTransport` type to provide an
explicitly dynamic actor transport. This is still an important option,
e.g., for cases where one wants to be able to dynamically change the
transport for testing or different kinds of deployment. For now, we
default to this transport in the library (via `DefaultActorTransport`),
but we may very well want to eliminate this because it will be
ambiguous with client libraries that vend their own
`DefaultActorTransport`.

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