APM: add HW-only denormal disabler

Denormal numbers (see [1]) may origin in APM when the input is zeroed
after a non-zero signal. In extreme cases, instructions involving
denormal operands may run as much as 100 times slower, which seems to
be the case (to some extent) of crbug.com/1227566.

This CL adds a class that disables denormals only via hardware on x86
and on ARM. The class is used in APM and it is an adaption of [2].

Tested: appr.tc call on Chromium (Win, Mac)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denormal_number
[2] https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:third_party/blink/renderer/platform/audio/denormal_disabler.h

Fixed: chromium:1227566
Change-Id: I0ed2eab55dc597529f09f93c26c7a01de051fdbe
Reviewed-on: https://webrtc-review.googlesource.com/c/src/+/227768
Reviewed-by: Magnus Flodman <mflodman@webrtc.org>
Reviewed-by: Per Ã…hgren <peah@webrtc.org>
Commit-Queue: Alessio Bazzica <alessiob@webrtc.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#34701}
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  18. rtc_base/
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