C: Implement merging arena pages#719
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Whenever we reset to the arena to a given point we consolidate all pages that got freed up into one page, allowing us to have larger chunks of contiguous memory.
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Based on the arena pages proposed in #708 by @marcoroth, this PR builds on the concept and adds a more refined reset behavior that merges obsolete pages into one big page.
This has the advantage that we won't have a bunch of small pages, and instead have more contiguous memory available.
How it works
For now the first page is never deallocated and merged into a bigger page for two reasons:
Related: #1155