This issue would only manifest when a custom task runner was being used with
a custom compositor. Both were tested separately but not together. A new
test has been added for this. We still create the GPU thread merger
unnecessarily but I can patch that later. I also cleaned up the existing
custom task runner test to not submit tasks on a dead engine as they just
log errors unnecessarily.
Filed new: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/38844
Currently, all Flutter threads are managed by the engine itself. This works for
all threads except the platform thread. On this thread, the engine cannot see
the underlying event multiplexing mechanism. Using the new task runner
interfaces, the engine can relinquish the task of setting up the event
multiplexing mechanism and instead have the embedder provide one for it during
setup.
This scheme is only wired up for the platform thread. But, the eventual goal
is to expose this message loop interoperability for all threads.