The first 0.5.0 alpha release has some solid speed improvements across both aarch64 and x86_64.

The channel-api is going to be stabilized during this release cycle, please provide feedback on its usage.

Changes

• The per-frame custom-data is now using an Opaque struct

Improvements

• Memory layout optimization for the EC checkpoint/rollback capability used in the RDO
• Additional 10bit x86_64 assembly