while still preserving the guarantee about async() being assigned a unit
of concurrency (or immediately running the task), this change:
* retains the error from calling getCpuCount()
* spawns all threads in detached mode, using WaitGroup to join them
* treats all workers the same regardless of whether they are processing
concurrent or async tasks. one thread pool does all the work, while
respecting async and concurrent limits.
these tasks have some shared data dependencies so they cannot be done
simultaneously. Future work should untangle these data dependencies so
that more can be done in parallel.
for now this commit ensures correctness by making linker input parsing
and codegen tasks part of the same queue.
* move std.atomic.Atomic to std.atomic.Value
* fix incorrect argument order passed to testing.expectEqual
* make the functions be a thin wrapper over the atomic builtins and
stick to the naming conventions.
* remove pointless functions loadUnchecked and storeUnchecked. Instead,
name the field `raw` instead of `value` (which is redundant with the
type name).
* simplify the tests by not passing every possible combination. Many
cases were iterating over every possible combinations but then not
even using the for loop element value!
* remove the redundant compile errors which are already implemented by
the language itself.
* remove dead x86 inline assembly. this should be implemented in the
language if at all.