Andreas Kling 59125dc6b1 LibRegex: Fail fast when matches need a missing literal ...

Detect literal tails that lie on the linear success path and reject
matches early when that literal never appears in the remaining input.
This lets /(a+)+b/ fail quickly on long runs of a instead of spending
its backtracking budget proving that the missing b can never match.

Keep the tail analysis cheap while doing this. The new required-literal
hint reuses trailing-literal extraction, so rewrite the linear-tail
check to compute predecessor counts in one pass instead of rescanning
the whole program for every instruction. That keeps large regex parses,
including the large bytestring constructor test, fast.

Add a regression test for ("a".repeat(25)).match(/(a+)+b/), which
should return null without throwing a backtrack-limit error.

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LibRegex: Fail fast when matches need a missing literal

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