erts: Refactor the export table, and optimize fun table inserts #8674
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Inspired by #8664, this takes the idea a bit further by avoiding locks altogether when there's already an active fun entry for closures coming through the external term format. It does this by versioning the fun table in the same manner as the export table, sharing the same implementation for both.
This required making fun entries live forever (like export entries), which might kill the PR if there's enough disagreement over that. However, as doing this reclaims at least one word per local fun term I conjecture that it will lead to lower memory usage in practice, given the relative rarity of code purging vs fun creation in most applications.