[Support] Add a way to run a function on a detached thread
This roughly mimics `std::thread(...).detach()` except it allows to customize the stack size. Required for https://reviews.llvm.org/D50993. I've decided against reusing the existing `llvm_execute_on_thread` because it's not obvious what to do with the ownership of the passed function/arguments: 1. If we pass possibly owning functions data to `llvm_execute_on_thread`, we'll lose the ability to pass small non-owning non-allocating functions for the joining case (as it's used now). Is it important enough? 2. If we use the non-owning interface in the new use case, we'll force clients to transfer ownership to the spawned thread manually, but similar code would still have to exist inside `llvm_execute_on_thread(_async)` anyway (as we can't just pass the same non-owning pointer to pthreads and Windows implementations, and would be forced to wrap it in some structure, and deal with its ownership. Patch by Dmitry Kozhevnikov! Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D51103
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