Fix race condition in tokenizer loading with thread-safe mutex to resolve threading issues

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Summary

This PR fixes a race condition in the HarmonyEncoding tokenizer loading path by introducing a thread-safe mutex-based synchronization mechanism. When multiple threads attempt to load the tokenizer simultaneously, the new DOWNLOAD_MUTEX ensures only one thread performs the download/initialization at a time, preventing file corruption and inconsistent state.

Changes

• Added std::sync::OnceLock<Mutex<()>> as a global DOWNLOAD_MUTEX for synchronizing concurrent downloads
• Implemented load_harmony_encoding_safe() which acquires the mutex before performing any tokenizer loading operations
• Added load_harmony_encoding_from_file() to support the offline loading API for pre-downloaded tokenizer files
• The mutex is lazily initialized via OnceLock::get_or_init(), ensuring thread-safe one-time initialization

Testing

• Verified that concurrent calls to load_harmony_encoding_safe() from multiple threads are properly serialized
• Confirmed that the offline loading API works correctly for pre-downloaded tokenizer files
• Related to the race condition originally reported in #6
• Implements the offline loading capability requested in Race condition in HarmonyEncoding concurrent access during tokenizer loading #1

Closes #1

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Technical Review

This implementation correctly addresses the race condition using a well-established pattern. Here's my analysis:

Thread Safety Analysis:
The use of OnceLock combined with a mutex provides robust thread safety for the tokenizer loading path. The OnceLock ensures the mutex itself is initialized exactly once (lazy initialization), while the mutex serializes all concurrent access to the download/loading code. This is a clean and idiomatic Rust approach.

Key Design Decisions:

• OnceLock<Mutex<()>> is the right choice here — it guarantees the mutex is only created once, even under concurrent access, and the Mutex<()> provides a lightweight synchronization primitive since no data needs to be shared through the lock itself.
• The _guard variable holding the lock ensures it's held for the entire duration of the loading operation, preventing any other thread from entering the critical section.
• The offline loading API (load_harmony_encoding_from_file) is a valuable addition that addresses issue #1, allowing users to load pre-downloaded tokenizer files without network access.

Race Condition Prevention:
Before this fix, multiple threads could simultaneously check for the tokenizer file's existence, find it missing, and all initiate downloads — corrupting the file. Now, the mutex ensures only one thread enters the critical section at a time, so the first thread downloads the file while subsequent threads wait and then find the file already present.

Recommendation: Consider adding error propagation for the lock acquisition failure case (though unwrap() is acceptable here since a poisoned mutex would indicate a more severe problem).