Move most of the delay# impl from cmm to C
Moves it into the IOManager.c where we can follow the new pattern of switching on the selected I/O manager. Uses a new IOManager API: syncDelay, following the naming convention of sync* for thread-synchronous I/O & timer/delay operations. As part of porting from cmm to C, we maintain the rule that the why_blocked gets accessed using load acquire and store release atomic memory operations. There was one exception to this rule: in the delay# primop cmm code on posix (not win32), the why_blocked was being updated using a store relaxed, not a store release. I've no idea why. In this convesion I'm playing it safe here and using store release consistently.
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