libcore: Implement an `Equiv` trait and use it on hashmaps.

7.3x speedup in string map search speed on a microbenchmark of pure hashmap
searching against a constant string, due to the lack of allocations.

I ran into a few snags.

1. The way the coherence check is set up, I can't implement `Equiv<@str>` and
   `Equiv<~str>` for `&str` simultaneously.

2. I wanted to implement `Equiv<T>` for all `T:Eq` (i.e. every type can be
   compared to itself if it implements `Eq`), but the coherence check didn't
   like that either.

3. I couldn't add this to the `Map` trait because `LinearMap` needs special
   handling for its `Q` type parameter: it must not only implement `Equiv<T>`
   but also `Hash` and `Eq`.

4. `find_equiv(&&"foo")` doesn't parse, because of the double ampersand. It has
   to be written `find_equiv(& &"foo")`. We can probably just fix this.

Nevertheless, this is a huge win; it should address a major source of
performance problems, including the one here:

http://maniagnosis.crsr.net/2013/02/creating-letterpress-cheating-program.html

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