strings, bytes: optimize function Index

This change compares the first two characters instead of the first one,
and if they match, the entire string is compared. Comparing the first two
characters helps to filter out the case where the first character matches
but the subsequent characters do not match, thereby improving the substring
search speed in this case.

Benchmarks with no effect or minimal impact (less than 5%) is not listed,
the following are improved benchmarks:
On arm64:
strings:
IndexPeriodic/IndexPeriodic16-8   172890.00ns +- 2%   124156.20ns +- 0%  -28.19%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)
IndexPeriodic/IndexPeriodic32-8    78092.80ns +- 0%    65138.60ns +- 0%  -16.59%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)
IndexPeriodic/IndexPeriodic64-8    42322.20ns +- 0%    34661.60ns +- 0%  -18.10%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)
bytes:
IndexPeriodic/IndexPeriodic16-8     183468.20ns +- 6%     123759.00ns +- 0%  -32.54%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)
IndexPeriodic/IndexPeriodic32-8      84776.40ns +- 0%      63907.80ns +- 0%  -24.62%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)
IndexPeriodic/IndexPeriodic64-8      45835.60ns +- 0%      34194.20ns +- 0%  -25.40%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)

On amd64:
strings:
IndexPeriodic/IndexPeriodic8-16    219499.00ns +- 0%   178123.40ns +- 0%  -18.85%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)
IndexPeriodic/IndexPeriodic16-16   109760.20ns +- 0%    88957.80ns +- 0%  -18.95%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)
IndexPeriodic/IndexPeriodic32-16    54943.00ns +- 0%    44573.80ns +- 0%  -18.87%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)
IndexPeriodic/IndexPeriodic64-16    29804.80ns +- 0%    24417.80ns +- 0%  -18.07%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)
bytes:
IndexPeriodic/IndexPeriodic8-16     226592.60ns +- 0%    181183.20ns +- 0%  -20.04%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)
IndexPeriodic/IndexPeriodic16-16    111432.60ns +- 0%     90634.60ns +- 0%  -18.66%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)
IndexPeriodic/IndexPeriodic32-16     55640.60ns +- 0%     45433.00ns +- 0%  -18.35%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)
IndexPeriodic/IndexPeriodic64-16     30833.00ns +- 0%     24784.20ns +- 0%  -19.62%  (p=0.008 n=5+5)

Change-Id: I2d9e7e138d29e960d20a203eb74dc2ec976a9d71
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/131177
Run-TryBot: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
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