[2023-04-11] Library and Engine Team Update

[jdunkerley]

• James: Reviewed all the functions in the public APIs and tagged a lot as PRIVATE. Add PRIVATE so function hidden from Component Browser and other tidying... #6207
• James: Working on a new replace function on the Column and a few other tweaks from working with Ned.
• Radek: Added Table.union to the in database table. Implement Table.union for Database backend #6204
• Radek: Adjust Table.parse_values and Column.parse to use the Value_Type type. Adjust {Table|Column}.parse to use Value_Type #6213
• Radek: Enabled full join support for SQLite. Full-joins in SQLite #6215
• Radek: Implementing a workaround for IO.println failing if to_text returned a non-Text value Ensure that IO.println does not fail if to_text returned a non-Text value. #6223
• Radek: Adding missing type checks to column operations.
• Greg: Completed work on Text.split and Text.tokenize.
• Greg: Adding split and tokenize to the In Memory table. Add split and tokenize to the Table.  #6233
• Jaroslav: Fixed issue with Text.to_display_text. Text.to_display_text is (shortened) identity #6174
• Jaroslav: Investigated issue with Math.sqrt slow performance.
• Jaroslav: Fixed issue with Any.== slowness caused by Panic.catch. Improve performance by always trying to resolve conversion for Any. Always try to resolve conversion for Any type #6184
• Jaroslav / Pavel M: Investigating if slow performance versus case using IGV graphs.
• Jaroslav: Triage on one line function signatures (sent to Kaz).
• Jaroslav: Added support for suspended atom fields. Suspended atom fields are evaluated only once #6151
• Jaroslav: Consolidating Array and Vector methods. Consolidate Vector and Array methods #6218
• Hubert: Added the engine side features needed for Runtime.Contexts. Replace IOContexts with execution env and contexts #6171
• Hubert: Added support within the engine to do Warning extension functions. Add Warning methods onto Any to make working with them easier. #6176
• Pavel M: Continued work on sort handles Incomparable types by default. sort handles incomparable values #5998
• Pavel M: Add ability to compare branches to bench_download tool. Engine benchmark visualization tool can compare two bench runs #6198
• Graphs of performance available to everyone
• Dmitry: Finished batch insert suggestions. Batch insert suggestions #6189
• Dmitry: Language Server Protocol changes to support Execution Contexts. Language Server support for execution environments #6217
• Dmitry: Cleanup SQL versions repo.
• Pawel G: Continued work on replacing node text label with widget hierarchy.