The compilation of wasm UDFs is performed by a call to a foreign
function, which cannot be divided with yielding points and, as a
result, causes long reactor stalls for big UDFs.
We avoid them by submitting the compilation task to a non-seastar
std::thread, and retrieving the result using seastar::alien.
The thread is created at the start of the program. It executes
tasks from a queue in an infinite loop.
All seastar shards reference the thread through a std::shared_ptr
to a `alien_thread_runner`.
Considering that the compilation takes a long time anyway, the
alien_thread_runner is implemented with focus on simplicity more
than on performance. The tasks are stored in an std::queue, reading
and writing to it is synchronized using an std::mutex for reading/
writing to the queue, and an std::condition_variable waiting until
the queue has elements.
When the destructor of the alien runner is called, an std::nullopt
sentinel is pushed to the queue, and after all remaining tasks are
finished and the sentinel is read, the thread finishes.
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