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Document threading support a bit more

This adds a few known limitations around threading to the README and suggests the users to look into GitHub issues to learn more.

Addresses #1388 (comment)
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Expand Up @@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ in your program, and cannot run all programs:
has no access to most platform-specific APIs or FFI. A few APIs have been
implemented (such as printing to stdout) but most have not: for example, Miri
currently does not support SIMD or networking.
* Threading support is not finished yet. E.g., weak memory effects are not
emulated and spin loops (without syscalls) just loop forever. There is no
threading support on Windows.

[rust]: https://www.rust-lang.org/
[mir]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1211-mir.md
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