function barrier in npzreadarray and introduce readheader

[jishnub]

This PR does two things:

• Make the Header type parametric and concrete: this seems to cut down on allocations while reading arrays

On master:

julia> npzwrite("abc.npy", ones(3,4));

julia> @btime npzread("abc.npy");
  23.639 μs (91 allocations: 5.80 KiB)

After this PR:

julia> @btime npzread("abc.npy");
  20.911 μs (80 allocations: 5.28 KiB)

The difference in run-time is marginal.

• Introduce a function readheader that returns the header. This might be convenient to get the eltype and size of the array without reading it in (eg. to pre-allocate an array of the correct size). This function is not exported.

julia> npzwrite("abc.npy", ones(3,4));

julia> NPZ.readheader("abc.npy")
NPZ.Header{Float64,2,typeof(ltoh)}(ltoh, true, (3, 4))

julia> NPZ.readheader("abc.npy") |> size
(3, 4)

julia> NPZ.readheader("abc.npy") |> eltype
Float64

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Merging #44 (37374e4) into master (9a66947) will increase coverage by 0.85%.
The diff coverage is 92.10%.

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[fhs]

Thanks!

It looks ok from a high level. I didn't look at it in detail -- I stopped using Julia years ago and I've lost a lot of my knowledge and also Julia has changed. I'm looking for other people to help review these PRs.

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