[WIP]: Add experimental fibers #42
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I've found that using value semantics in affine type system (such as rust's one) you can express sort of a "suspended execution" via an object I have called fiber. I intend to use it as a mechanism to prevent rayon's work-stealing related deadlocks and maybe see a performance benefit in projects utilizing rayon for more-than-awkwardly parallel algorithms like rustc.
This code is not ready aside from using it for experiments, but I'm putting it here for anyone else interested.