diff --color-moved-ws=allow-indentation-change: improve hash lookups

As libxdiff does not have a whitespace flag to ignore the indentation
the code for --color-moved-ws=allow-indentation-change uses
XDF_IGNORE_WHITESPACE and then filters out any hash lookups where
there are non-indentation changes. This filtering is inefficient as
we have to perform another string comparison.

By using the offset data that we have already computed to skip the
indentation we can avoid using XDF_IGNORE_WHITESPACE and safely remove
the extra checks which improves the performance by 11% and paves the
way for the elimination of string comparisons in the next commit.

This change slightly increases the run time of other --color-moved
modes. This could be avoided by using different comparison functions
for the different modes but after the next two commits there is no
measurable benefit in doing so.

There is a change in behavior for lines that begin with a form-feed or
vertical-tab character. Since b46054b374 ("xdiff: use
git-compat-util", 2019-04-11) xdiff does not treat '\f' or '\v' as
whitespace characters. This means that lines starting with those
characters are never considered to be blank and never match a line
that does not start with the same character. After this patch a line
matching "^[\f\v\r]*[ \t]*$" is considered to be blank by
--color-moved-ws=allow-indentation-change and lines beginning
"^[\f\v\r]*[ \t]*" can match another line if the suffixes match. This
changes the output of git show for d18f76dccf ("compat/regex: use the
regex engine from gawk for compat", 2010-08-17) as some lines in the
pre-image before a moved block that contain '\f' are now considered
moved as well as they match a blank line before the moved lines in the
post-image. This commit updates one of the tests to reflect this
change.

Test                                                                  HEAD^             HEAD
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4002.1: diff --no-color-moved --no-color-moved-ws large change        0.38(0.33+0.05)   0.38(0.33+0.05)  +0.0%
4002.2: diff --color-moved --no-color-moved-ws large change           0.86(0.82+0.04)   0.88(0.84+0.04)  +2.3%
4002.3: diff --color-moved-ws=allow-indentation-change large change   0.97(0.94+0.03)   0.86(0.81+0.05) -11.3%
4002.4: log --no-color-moved --no-color-moved-ws                      1.16(1.07+0.09)   1.16(1.06+0.09)  +0.0%
4002.5: log --color-moved --no-color-moved-ws                         1.32(1.26+0.06)   1.33(1.27+0.05)  +0.8%
4002.6: log --color-moved-ws=allow-indentation-change                 1.35(1.29+0.06)   1.33(1.24+0.08)  -1.5%

Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

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