Recommit introducing short external strings.

test/mjsunit/string-externalize.js

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 function test() {
   var str = "";
 
   // Build an ascii cons string.
   for (var i = 0; i < size; i++) {
       str += String.fromCharCode(i & 0x7f);
   }
   assertTrue(isAsciiString(str));
 
   var twoByteExternalWithAsciiData =
-      "AAAAAAAA" + (function() { return "A"; })();
+      "AA" + (function() { return "A"; })();
   externalizeString(twoByteExternalWithAsciiData, true /* force two-byte */);
   assertFalse(isAsciiString(twoByteExternalWithAsciiData));
 
   var realTwoByteExternalString =
       "\u1234\u1234\u1234\u1234" + (function() { return "\u1234"; })();
   externalizeString(realTwoByteExternalString);
   assertFalse(isAsciiString(realTwoByteExternalString));
 
   assertTrue(isAsciiString(["a", twoByteExternalWithAsciiData].join("")));
 
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   charat_str[2] = charat_str[0].slice(0, -1);
   charat_str[3] = charat_str[1].slice(0, -1);
   charat_str[4] = charat_str[0] + charat_str[0];
 
   for (var i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
     assertEquals('B', charat_str[i].charAt(6*16 + 11));
     assertEquals('C', charat_str[i].charAt(6*16 + 12));
     assertEquals('A', charat_str[i].charAt(3*16 + 10));
     assertEquals('B', charat_str[i].charAt(3*16 + 11));
   }
+
+  charat_short = "012";
+  try {  // String can only be externalized once
+    externalizeString(charat_short, true);
+  } catch (ex) { }
+  assertEquals("1", charat_short.charAt(1));
 }
 
 // Run the test many times to ensure IC-s don't break things.
 for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
   test();
 }
 
 // Clean up string to make Valgrind happy.
 gc();
 gc();