[dart/vm] Replaces eager with lazy reading of constants table

Rationale:
Previously all constants were read from the constants table,
whether they were needed (at that point or at all) or not. This
CL replaces that eager reading with a lazy reading that makes
the raw bytes of the constants table available through
KernelProgramInfo and attaches a hashmap to KernelProgramInfo,
which maps offsets into the constant table to evaluated constants.
The maps starts empty and on a miss, the constant is evaluated,
but no sooner than when it it needed.

https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/36220

Change-Id: Ief4df3d70c950c4beb61d896632ce06cfd12d525
Reviewed-on: https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/99088
Commit-Queue: Aart Bik <ajcbik@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Markov <alexmarkov@google.com>
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