Make GitFileSystemObjectSink multi-threaded #12087
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Motivation
This speeds up importing tarballs into the Git cache.
Time for importing a nixpkgs tarballs on Nix master:
With this PR:
TODO: this currently buffers all file contents in memory before writing them to disk, so it's no longer constant memory. But this could be fixed pretty easily (e.g. if there are more than N bytes worth of unwritten files, then wait).
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