x86_64.Lower: replace slow stringToEnum call

Looking at a compilation of 'test/behavior/x86_64/unary.zig' in
callgrind showed that a full 30% of the compiler runtime was spent in
this `stringToEnum` call, so optimizing it was low-hanging fruit.

We tried replacing it with nested `switch` statements using
`inline else`, but that generated too much code; it didn't emit huge
binaries or anything, but LLVM used a *ridiculous* amount of memory
compiling it in some cases. The core problem here is that only a small
subset of the cases are actually used (the rest fell through to an
"error" path), but that subset is computed at comptime, so we must rely
on the optimizer to eliminate the thousands of redundant cases. This
would be solved by #21507.

Instead, we pre-compute a lookup table at comptime. This table is pretty
big (I guess a couple hundred k?), but only the "valid" subset of
entries will be accessed in practice (unless a bug in the backend is
hit), so it's not too awful on the cache; and it performs much better
than the old `std.meta.stringToEnum` call.

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