Update to lz4 r130, export fast_compress method in python module, bump release to 0.8#40

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Add logic for building against a system lz4 library to setup.py
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Only add the LZ4_VERSION string to the module if building against bundled lz4 library
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Add lz4version function to return the lz4 C library version
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release the GIL while compressing and decompressing
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