Refactor arenas array (fixes deadlock).
Refactor the arenas array, which contains pointers to all extant arenas, such that it starts out as a sparse array of maximum size, and use double-checked atomics-based reads as the basis for fast and simple arena_get(). Additionally, reduce arenas_lock's role such that it only protects against arena initalization races. These changes remove the possibility for arena lookups to trigger locking, which resolves at least one known (fork-related) deadlock. This resolves #315.
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