MINOR: standard: provide htonll() and ntohll()
These are the 64-bit equivalent of htonl() and ntohl(). They're a bit
tricky in order to avoid expensive operations.
The principle consists in letting the compiler detect we're playing
with a union and simplify most or all operations. The asm-optimized
htonl() version involving bswap (x86) / rev (arm) / other is a single
operation on little endian, or a NOP on big-endian. In both cases,
this lets the compiler "see" that we're rebuilding a 64-bit word from
two 32-bit quantities that fit into a 32-bit register. In big endian,
the whole code is optimized out. In little endian, with a decent compiler,
a few bswap and 2 shifts are left, which is the minimum acceptable.
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