Add the ability for plugins to opt-in to asyncronous state calls #310
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This adds a new function on state-context that allows the plugin to opt in to receiving save and load calls on a new "state-thread" symbolic thread. Hosts could use this to parallelize loading and saving session state, which can greatly reduce the time it takes to load or save a large session.
This came out of discussion on #255, and is opened as a PR in the hopes that looking at a concrete change proposal is more productive than discussing in the abstract. I'm happy to reject this and continue the discussion somewhere else if that's more appropriate.
Currently left unaddressed is the idea of activating also on a background thread, raised in this comment. I could use ideas on how to allow this. Perhaps
state-thread
is not a good idea and it should be calledbg-thread
or something like that?