Define compiler-independent byte-swap macros and use them instead of
executing 'rev' via inline assembly code with GCC-compatible compilers
or a slow shift-store sequence with Visual C++.
* This produces identical assembly code with:
- 64-bit GCC 8.4.0 (Linux)
- 64-bit GCC 9.3.0 (Linux)
- 64-bit Clang 10.0.0 (Linux)
- 64-bit Clang 10.0.0 (MinGW)
- 64-bit Clang 12.0.0 (Xcode 12.2, macOS)
- 64-bit Clang 12.0.0 (Xcode 12.2, iOS)
* This produces different assembly code with:
- 64-bit GCC 4.9.1 (Linux)
- 32-bit GCC 4.8.2 (Linux)
- 32-bit GCC 8.4.0 (Linux)
- 32-bit GCC 9.3.0 (Linux)
Since the intrinsics implementation of Huffman encoding is not used
by default with these compilers, this is not a concern.
- 32-bit Clang 10.0.0 (Linux)
Verified performance neutrality
Closes#507
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