Improve performance of move-to-front by using cache-friendly
copies instead of doubly-linked list. Simplify so that the
underlying slice is the object. Remove the n=0 special case,
      which was actually slower with the copy approach.

benchmark                 old ns/op     new ns/op     delta
BenchmarkDecodeDigits     26429714      23859699      -9.72%
BenchmarkDecodeTwain      76684510      67591946      -11.86%

benchmark                 old MB/s     new MB/s     speedup
BenchmarkDecodeDigits     1.63         1.81         1.11x
BenchmarkDecodeTwain      1.63         1.85         1.13x

Updates #6754.

LGTM=adg, agl, josharian
R=adg, agl, josharian
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/131840043