Implement async setTimeout #844
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Note this PR is a work in progress as I learn more about async programming
While taking CPU profiles of BabylonNative I noticed that

Window::RecursiveWaitOrCall
(used by thesetTimeout
polyfill) was taking up a bunch of cycles:This seemed to be due to the high number of
Dispatch
calls coming from the recursive loop.Now we're using a single worker thread with a condition variable and a priority queue, which allows us to both queue up delayed functions and preempt them, reducing the CPU load significantly.
fixes #843