Use a polling thread per device #778
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This PR makes each device create a thread for polling the native device to resolve the promises. This means there are no busy-loops; i.e. its less strain on the CPU while obtaining faster responses.
The implemented technique is heavily inspired by the implementation in the Servo browser (servo/servo#32266). The Firefox browser will likely adopt a similar strategy soon (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1870699).
When passing a loop instance, this work relies on
loop.call_soon_threadsafefrom pygfx/rendercanvas#146.