Improve performance of memmem

This patch significantly improves performance of memmem using a novel
modified Horspool algorithm.  Needles up to size 256 use a bad-character
table indexed by hashed pairs of characters to quickly skip past mismatches.
Long needles use a self-adapting filtering step to avoid comparing the whole
needle repeatedly.

By limiting the needle length to 256, the shift table only requires 8 bits
per entry, lowering preprocessing overhead and minimizing cache effects.
This limit also implies worst-case performance is linear.

Small needles up to size 2 use a dedicated linear search.  Very long needles
use the Two-Way algorithm (to avoid increasing stack size or slowing down
the common case, inlining is disabled).

The performance gain is 6.6 times on English text on AArch64 using random
needles with average size 8.

Tested against GLIBC testsuite and randomized tests.

Reviewed-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>

	* string/memmem.c (__memmem): Rewrite to improve performance.

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