In the process, simplified internal sizeOf and
dataSize functions. Minor positive impact on
performance. Added test case.

benchmark                         old ns/op     new ns/op     delta
BenchmarkReadSlice1000Int32s      14006         14122         +0.83%
BenchmarkReadStruct               2508          2447          -2.43%
BenchmarkReadInts                 921           928           +0.76%
BenchmarkWriteInts                2086          2081          -0.24%
BenchmarkWriteSlice1000Int32s     13440         13497         +0.42%
BenchmarkPutUvarint32             28.5          26.3          -7.72%
BenchmarkPutUvarint64             81.3          76.7          -5.66%

benchmark                         old MB/s     new MB/s     speedup
BenchmarkReadSlice1000Int32s      285.58       283.24       0.99x
BenchmarkReadStruct               27.90        28.60        1.03x
BenchmarkReadInts                 32.57        32.31        0.99x
BenchmarkWriteInts                14.38        14.41        1.00x
BenchmarkWriteSlice1000Int32s     297.60       296.36       1.00x
BenchmarkPutUvarint32             140.55       151.92       1.08x
BenchmarkPutUvarint64             98.36        104.33       1.06x

Fixes #6818.

LGTM=r
R=r
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/149290045