Use the counters module to speed up cover

Use `counters:add/3` instead of `ets:update_counter/3`
for counting the number of times a line is executed.

By default, the reference to the counter array for each module will be
stored in a persistent term and retrieved every time a counter is
updated. This makes the compiler test suite with coverage enabled run
*almost* twice as fast (on my computer, in about 6 minutes down from
more than 11 minutes).

To get even more speed, the new `cover:local_only/0` function can be
called to put cover into a mode where the cover-compiled code can only
be run on the local node. In this mode, the cover-compiled modules in
a more efficient way by compiling the counter reference into the
code. This shaves off about one more minute, making the compiler test
suite with coverage enabled run *more than* twice as fast (in about 5
minutes on my computer).

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