Data queues, prefetching and multi-source #1773
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I split the work on data_layer from #1148. It was written initially to get enough bandwidth to feed multiple GPUs and fix performance issues with the thread creation/destruction on each batch. Over time a few other things got in. In particular we are experimenting at Flickr with different ratios of classes by reading from multiple sources. E.g. each dataset can be setup to contain one class, and the probability of each source defines the class ratios at runtime. Features: