Rollup merge of #37229 - nnethercote:FxHasher, r=nikomatsakis

Replace FNV with a faster hash function.

Hash table lookups are very hot in rustc profiles and the time taken within `FnvHash` itself is a big part of that. Although FNV is a simple hash, it processes its input one byte at a time. In contrast, Firefox has a homespun hash function that is also simple but works on multiple bytes at a time. So I tried it out and the results are compelling:

```
futures-rs-test  4.326s vs  4.212s --> 1.027x faster (variance: 1.001x, 1.007x)
helloworld       0.233s vs  0.232s --> 1.004x faster (variance: 1.037x, 1.016x)
html5ever-2016-  5.397s vs  5.210s --> 1.036x faster (variance: 1.009x, 1.006x)
hyper.0.5.0      5.018s vs  4.905s --> 1.023x faster (variance: 1.007x, 1.006x)
inflate-0.1.0    4.889s vs  4.872s --> 1.004x faster (variance: 1.012x, 1.007x)
issue-32062-equ  0.347s vs  0.335s --> 1.035x faster (variance: 1.033x, 1.019x)
issue-32278-big  1.717s vs  1.622s --> 1.059x faster (variance: 1.027x, 1.028x)
jld-day15-parse  1.537s vs  1.459s --> 1.054x faster (variance: 1.005x, 1.003x)
piston-image-0. 11.863s vs 11.482s --> 1.033x faster (variance: 1.060x, 1.002x)
regex.0.1.30     2.517s vs  2.453s --> 1.026x faster (variance: 1.011x, 1.013x)
rust-encoding-0  2.080s vs  2.047s --> 1.016x faster (variance: 1.005x, 1.005x)
syntex-0.42.2   32.268s vs 31.275s --> 1.032x faster (variance: 1.014x, 1.022x)
syntex-0.42.2-i 17.629s vs 16.559s --> 1.065x faster (variance: 1.013x, 1.021x)
```

(That's a stage1 compiler doing debug builds. Results for a stage2 compiler are similar.)

The attached commit is not in a state suitable for landing because I changed the implementation of FnvHasher without changing its name (because that would have required touching many lines in the compiler). Nonetheless, it is a good place to start discussions.

Profiles show very clearly that this new hash function is a lot faster to compute than FNV. The quality of the new hash function is less clear -- it seems to do better in some cases and worse in others (judging by the number of instructions executed in `Hash{Map,Set}::get`).

CC @brson, @arthurprs

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