[FEA]: Provide interface and implementation for in-place `thrust::copy_if`
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### Area
Thrust
### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Our `thrust::copy_if` interfaces do not support in-place stream compaction. The performance measurements in https://github.com/NVIDIA/cccl/pull/1782#issuecomment-2133809012 and https://github.com/NVIDIA/cccl/pull/1782#issuecomment-2133809012 have highlighted that there is notable performance downside associated with adding precautions (i.e., memory barriers) required to support in-place stream compaction in `thrust::copy_if`. As a result we want to provide in-place stream compaction via its own interface using a specialized code path.
### Describe the solution you'd like
To avoid unwanted ambiguity between existing overloads and the in-place version, we probably want to expose that functionality via a new name (e.g., `thrust::inplace_copy_if`) rather than another set of overloads of `thrust::copy_if`.
### Describe alternatives you've considered
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