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refactor: Replace EventLoop::post() with sync() taking kj::FunctionParam - #347

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refactor: Replace EventLoop::post() with sync() taking kj::FunctionParam#347
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EventLoop::post() and the sync() wrapper around it did the same thing, so this merges them into a single sync() method. And also takes the callback as a kj::FunctionParam instead of a kj::Function: FunctionParam stores only a pointer to the caller's callable rather than taking ownership of it, so the callable no longer needs to be copyable or movable, and each call avoids a heap allocation.

This is safe because sync() does not return until the event loop thread has finished running the callback and cleared m_post_fn(now named m_sync_fn), so the pointer is never used after the callable goes out of scope.

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Concept ACK 2b23e78. Looks like a nice efficiency improvement!

Note that we should be able to make this more efficient by dropping the pipe used to wake the event loop and using the cross-thread mechanisms newer versions of capnproto provide (kj::Executor, kj::newPromiseAndCrossThreadFulfiller, or kj::EventPort::wake). But this PR is a nice targetted improvement.

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lgtm ACK 2b23e78

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