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    Implement fibers on Unix. · e8a14a7a
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    Fibers allow code to be written in a synchronous / blocking style while running inside the KJ event loop, by executing the code on an alternate call stack and switching back to the main stack whenever it waits.
    
    We introduce a new function, `kj::startFiber(stackSize, func)`. `func` is executed on the fiber stack. It is passed as its parameter a `WaitScope&`, which can then be passed into the `.wait()` method of any promise in order to wait on the promise in a blocking style. `startFiber()` returns a promise for the eventual value returned by `func()` (much as `evalLater()` and friends do).
    
    This commit implements fibers on Unix via ucontext_t. Windows will come next (and will probably be easier...).
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