Implement Process.warmup

[Feature #18885]

For now, the optimizations performed are:

  - Run a major GC
  - Compact the heap
  - Promote all surviving objects to oldgen

Other optimizations may follow.

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     * `Module#set_temporary_name` added for setting a temporary name for a module. [[Feature #19521]]
 
+* Process.warmup
+
+    * Notify the Ruby virtual machine that the boot sequence is finished,
+      and that now is a good time to optimize the application. This is useful
+      for long running applications. The actual optimizations performed are entirely
+      implementation specific and may change in the future without notice. [[Feature #18885]
+
 ## Stdlib updates
 
 The following default gems are updated.