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Add initial integration for --json=timings behing -Zsection-timings (#15780)
### What does this PR try to resolve?

This PR adds initial support into Cargo for JSON timing sections,
implemented in rustc in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/142123.
This allows Cargo to read frontend/codegen/linking time from rustc, and
thus reporting slightly more detailed data in the `cargo build
--timings` output.

The PR modifies Cargo to tell rustc to emit the section messages
(`--json=...,timings`), and it adds the section timings data to the HTML
table output and the JSON output. It does not yet integration different
sections in the HTML unit chart (I want to do that as a follow-up).

Note that the JSON timings are currently only supported on the nightly
compiler (they are not stabilized). The new behavior is thus gated
behing an unstable Cargo flag (`-Zsection-timings`). When the flag is
unused, the HTML table should look more or less the same as before, just
that the code now supports both options.

### How to test and review this PR?

You can run e.g. this to generate the timing report with a nightly
compiler:
```bash
export RUSTC=`rustup +nightly which rustc`
target/debug/cargo build -Zsection-timings --timings
```
on some crate, e.g. [ripgrep](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep).

Tracking issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/15817
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