wasm: asyncify the dylink.0 custom section parser
This commit refactors the simple binary parser in the dyld script in charge of parsing the dylink.0 custom section. Previously the parser was synchronous and operated on the entire input buffer; this was simple and easy and worked well enough when the input wasm modules are instantly read from local filesystem. However, when running dyld in the browser, the wasm modules are transferred via fetch() requests. The host ghc and the browser might not be on the same machine, so slow network uplink does need to be considered. We only need to parse dylink.0 custom section to extract dependency info, and dylink.0 is the very first custom section in the wasm shared library binary payload, so the parsing process should not require fetch() to complete and should return the parsing result asap. Hence the refactorings in this commit: asyncify the parser, make it only consume as many bytes as needed by invoking an async consumer callback. The input is a readable stream from the fetch() response; once the response is available, the async wasm compilation can start in the background, and dylink.0 parsing shall end asap which results in more wasm shared libraries to be loaded earlier. Profit. (cherry picked from commit 929df0ba) (cherry picked from commit 48d0ea21)
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