[clang][deps] Parallelize module compilations (#180047) In a typical build, the build system schedules many TUs from the same target to be scanned/compiled at the same time. These TUs tend to depend on a similar set of modules, and they usually keep their imports alphabetically sorted. The nature of implicit modules then means that scanning these TUs reduces into a single-threaded computation, since only one TU wins the race to compile the common dependency module, and the same thread/process keeps being responsible for compiling all transitive dependencies of such module. This PR makes use of the single-module-parse-mode in a new scanning step that runs at the start of each TU scan. In this step, the scanner quickly discovers unconditional module dependencies of the TU without blocking on its compile. This typically discovers plenty of work to keep the available threads busy and compile modules in more parallel fashion. Modules discovered here are compiled on separate threads right away in the same two-step fashion. The second step then performs the regular dependency scan of the TU where each module import is a blocking operation. However, by this time, the first scanning step most likely already compiled the majority of modules, so there's actually little to no waiting happening here. The compiler only deserializes previously-built modules. This is a barebones implementation with some known quirks marked in FIXME comments. I will continue working on performance and polish once this lands.
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