fix(strutil.h): ensure proper constexpr of string hashing #3901
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The underlying farmhash algorithm (which is the basis for Strutil::strhash, and thus ustring's hash representation) turned out to not be properly constexpr under certain circumstances and needed to be expressed a different way to be fully constexpr on all platforms and for all strings.
New implementation suggested by Alex Wells.
Also, make sure string_view ctr from char* can be constexpr, even for
C++14. This is related for the sake of the strhash calls that, when
taking string literals, actually choose the variety that accepts a
string_view.