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deps: update V8 to 5.7

Rodrigo Muino Tomonari requested to merge github/fork/targos/v8-5.7 into master

Marking in-progress because Chrome 57 is still in beta. I'm also waiting on https://codereview.chromium.org/2736873005/ to drop the gyp patches.

Notable changes (source):

  • faster promises and async functions
  • faster spread operator, destructuring and generators
  • faster RegExps
  • new String methods: padStart and padEnd
  • new Intl method: Intl.DateTimeFormat.prototype.formatToParts
  • WebAssembly enabled by default
  • PromiseHook C++ API (cc @trevnorris)
Checklist
  • make -j4 test (UNIX), or vcbuild test (Windows) passes
  • commit message follows commit guidelines

/cc @nodejs/v8

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