Added ability to lock strings to prevent their representation or encoding from changing.

src/api.cc

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   i::Handle<i::String> obj = Utils::OpenHandle(this);
   i::Isolate* isolate = obj->GetIsolate();
   if (IsDeadCheck(isolate, "v8::String::MakeExternal()")) return false;
   if (i::StringShape(*obj).IsExternalTwoByte()) {
     return false;  // Already an external string.
   }
   ENTER_V8(isolate);
   if (isolate->string_tracker()->IsFreshUnusedString(obj)) {
     return false;
   }
+  if (isolate->heap()->IsStringLocked(*obj)) {
+    return false;
+  }
   if (isolate->heap()->IsInGCPostProcessing()) {
     return false;
   }
   bool result = obj->MakeExternal(resource);
   if (result && !obj->IsSymbol()) {
     isolate->heap()->external_string_table()->AddString(*obj);
   }
   return result;
 }
 
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 char* HandleScopeImplementer::Iterate(ObjectVisitor* v, char* storage) {
   HandleScopeImplementer* scope_implementer =
       reinterpret_cast<HandleScopeImplementer*>(storage);
   scope_implementer->IterateThis(v);
   return storage + ArchiveSpacePerThread();
 }
 
 } }  // namespace v8::internal