Refactor `thread_info` to remove the `RefCell`
`thread_info` currently uses `RefCell`-based initialization. Refactor this to use `OnceCell` instead which is more performant and better suits the needs of one-time initialization.
This is nobody's bottleneck but OnceCell checks are a single `cmp` vs. `RefCell<Option>` needing runtime logic
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