Prepare for experimental implementation of hetero-array support.

[nachumg]

We have a working implementation, with many tests.

I plan to upstream the functionality in stages along with the relevant tests.

This change adds a guard flag that can be easily enabled when running any tool that embeds the compiler.

[amykyta3]

Before merging this change, I would like to better understand the actual approach you took for implementing heterogeneous arrays and whether it fits safely within all the known use-cases. There are numerous possible approaches for this feature so I'd like to know how you did it.
I also have some architectural ideas on how to implement this, but was planning on deferring it to v2 of the compiler to allow better flexibility in making the API sensible. Ideally this would not be something gated by a feature flag since that creates excess maintenance complexity.

Please feel free to reach out to me either on the Matrix chat (https://matrix.to/#/#systemrdl:gitter.im) or via email (amykyta3 at gmail)

[amykyta3]

This introduces a new package dependency to Google's Abseil library, but with seemingly no benefit. None of the other PeakRDL utilities use Abseil for command line processing, nor is this systemrdl-compiler package a command-line tool.

[nachumg]

Hi Alex.

Our implementation needs refactoring before attempting to upstream.

I'll revisit when we have done that.

[amykyta3]

Again, please see my prior comment about discussing the implementation first. I expect this is a very significant change and will likely not be merged if it is not architecturally robust.