pack-objects: reorder members to shrink struct object_entry

Previous patches leave lots of holes and padding in this struct. This
patch reorders the members and shrinks the struct down to 80 bytes
(from 136 bytes on 64-bit systems, before any field shrinking is done)
with 16 bits to spare (and a couple more in in_pack_header_size when
we really run out of bits).

This is the last in a series of memory reduction patches (see
"pack-objects: a bit of document about struct object_entry" for the
first one).

Overall they've reduced repack memory size on linux-2.6.git from
3.747G to 3.424G, or by around 320M, a decrease of 8.5%. The runtime
of repack has stayed the same throughout this series. Ævar's testing
on a big monorepo he has access to (bigger than linux-2.6.git) has
shown a 7.9% reduction, so the overall expected improvement should be
somewhere around 8%.

See 87po42cwql.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com on-list
(https://public-inbox.org/git/87po42cwql.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/) for
more detailed numbers and a test script used to produce the numbers
cited above.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

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