Andrew Gallant 9f15e3b671 regex: fix a perf bug when using -w flag ...

When looking for an inner literal to speed up searches, if only a prefix
is found, then we generally give up doing inner literal optimizations since
the regex engine will generally handle it for us. Unfortunately, this
decision was being made *before* we wrap the regex in (^|\W)...($|\W) when
using the -w/--word-regexp flag, which would then defeat the literal
optimizations inside the regex engine.

We fix this with a bit of a hack that says, "if we're doing a word regexp,
then give me back any literal you find, even if it's a prefix."

2019-04-05 23:24:08 -04:00

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