Chez concurrency pt.1: real OS-thread futures + blocking promises (shared heap)

future/future-call run the body on a native thread (fork-thread) over the SAME
heap — JVM semantics, not Janet's isolated-heap snapshot. deref blocks on a
mutex+condition latch; timed (deref f ms val) uses an absolute deadline.
promise is a real blocking promise (deref parks until deliver), replacing the
Janet non-blocking atom shim. future?/future-done?/future-cancelled?/future-cancel
/realized? are native (the overlay versions read Janet map keys); re-asserted in
post-prelude over the overlay. pmap/pcalls/pvalues (overlay, over future) light
up for free.

Thread-safety this forces:
- atoms get a per-atom mutex; swap!/swap-vals! are a JVM-style CAS loop (f runs
  outside the lock, so a watch/validator can deref the same atom); reset!/
  compare-and-set! are atomic.
- the dynamic binding stack becomes a Chez thread-parameter, so each future/thread
  has its own; Chez inherits it at fork, giving binding conveyance (the shim also
  installs an explicit snapshot).
- Thread/sleep really sleeps now (a worker sleeping doesn't block the parent).

Re-minted the seed: future-call now resolves at compile time, so pmap compiles to
a var-deref instead of the host-static-call fallback that crashed. image.ss
unchanged.

Corpus: the 2 snapshot cases now match the JVM (shared) not Janet (isolated) —
allowlisted on both Chez gates; the two racy future-cancel cases allowlisted;
"promise undelivered" (blocks on JVM/Chez, profile :bucket :timeout) skipped like
:throws. Zero-Janet corpus 2544 -> 2569, 0 new divergences, floor raised. Full
Janet gate + JVM cert green.

jolt-byjr
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(cons "PI" (->num (* 4 (atan 1)))) (cons "E" (->num (exp 1)))
(cons "random" (lambda args (->num (random 1.0))))))
;; Thread: no real threading here (futures/timing are jolt-byjr). sleep is a no-op.
;; Thread: real OS threads back futures/promises (jolt-byjr), so sleep genuinely
;; parks the calling thread for `ms` milliseconds (a worker sleeping doesn't block
;; the parent). yield hands off the scheduler.
(register-class-statics! "Thread"
(list (cons "sleep" (lambda (ms . _) jolt-nil))
(list (cons "sleep" (lambda (ms . _)
(let* ((ms* (exact (floor ms)))
(secs (quotient ms* 1000))
(nanos (* (remainder ms* 1000) 1000000)))
(sleep (make-time 'time-duration nanos secs)))
jolt-nil))
(cons "yield" (lambda () jolt-nil))
(cons "interrupted" (lambda () #f))
(cons "currentThread" (lambda () (make-jhost "thread" '())))))