rewrite vm in rust

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The VM should be rewritten in Rust for:

1. Better link-time optimization
2. Safer abstraction over GC objects (the current C implementation does not increase GC object's reference count which may lead to use-after-free if a GC cycle occurs while the vm is executing an instruction).
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Cons:

1. The current Rust reimplementation is 2x slower than the C implementation (this may be due to LLVM adding an additional bound-check branch on instruction dispatching)
   • LLVM does optimize dispatching by providing a table for us, however it doesn't store the first branch in the match arm inside the table, it inlines the branch then does dispatching
   • Might be solved when Meta tracking issue for branch hints (RFC 1131) rust-lang/rust#26179 gets closed
2. Rust does not currently allow packed enums, so values will take 16 bytes (8 data bytes+8 tag bytes) which is less efficient than the current 9 bytes (8 data bytes+1 tag bytes)

Checklist:

• Port all opcodes from C vm to Rust
• Values on the VM's stack or global values will be reference counted; This will mean we will have to do extra work whenever we insert or remove a value from the stack or global.
  • Maybe remove VM's tracing function and just consider nodes with non-zero refcount as roots.
• Standard library functions must be rewritten.

A rewrite will be in order on the riir branch.