bytes: improve Compare function on amd64 for large byte arrays

This patch contains only loop unrolling change for size > 63B

Following are the performance numbers for various sizes on
On Haswell based system: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz.

benchcmp go.head.8.25.15.txt go.head.8.25.15.opt.txt
benchmark                       old ns/op     new ns/op     delta
BenchmarkBytesCompare1-4        5.37          5.37          +0.00%
BenchmarkBytesCompare2-4        5.37          5.38          +0.19%
BenchmarkBytesCompare4-4        5.37          5.37          +0.00%
BenchmarkBytesCompare8-4        4.42          4.38          -0.90%
BenchmarkBytesCompare16-4       4.27          4.45          +4.22%
BenchmarkBytesCompare32-4       5.30          5.36          +1.13%
BenchmarkBytesCompare64-4       6.93          6.78          -2.16%
BenchmarkBytesCompare128-4      10.3          9.50          -7.77%
BenchmarkBytesCompare256-4      17.1          13.8          -19.30%
BenchmarkBytesCompare512-4      31.3          22.1          -29.39%
BenchmarkBytesCompare1024-4     62.5          39.0          -37.60%
BenchmarkBytesCompare2048-4     112           73.2          -34.64%

Change-Id: I4eeb1c22732fd62cbac97ba757b0d29f648d4ef1
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/11871
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
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