Create an abstraction for the string type flags so that they can be cached....

src/heap.h

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   // Allocates a new SharedFunctionInfo object.
   // Returns Failure::RetryAfterGC(requested_bytes, space) if the allocation
   // failed.
   // Please note this does not perform a garbage collection.
   static Object* AllocateSharedFunctionInfo(Object* name);
 
   // Allocates a new cons string object.
   // Returns Failure::RetryAfterGC(requested_bytes, space) if the allocation
   // failed.
   // Please note this does not perform a garbage collection.
-  static Object* AllocateConsString(String* first, String* second);
+  static Object* AllocateConsString(String* first,
+                                    StringShape first_shape,
+                                    String* second,
+                                    StringShape second_shape);
 
   // Allocates a new sliced string object which is a slice of an underlying
   // string buffer stretching from the index start (inclusive) to the index
   // end (exclusive).
   // Returns Failure::RetryAfterGC(requested_bytes, space) if the allocation
   // failed.
   // Please note this does not perform a garbage collection.
-  static Object* AllocateSlicedString(String* buffer, int start, int end);
+  static Object* AllocateSlicedString(String* buffer,
+                                      StringShape buffer_shape,
+                                      int start,
+                                      int end);
 
   // Allocates a new sub string object which is a substring of an underlying
   // string buffer stretching from the index start (inclusive) to the index
   // end (exclusive).
   // Returns Failure::RetryAfterGC(requested_bytes, space) if the allocation
   // failed.
   // Please note this does not perform a garbage collection.
-  static Object* AllocateSubString(String* buffer, int start, int end);
+  static Object* AllocateSubString(String* buffer,
+                                   StringShape buffer_shape,
+                                   int start,
+                                   int end);
 
   // Allocate a new external string object, which is backed by a string
   // resource that resides outside the V8 heap.
   // Returns Failure::RetryAfterGC(requested_bytes, space) if the allocation
   // failed.
   // Please note this does not perform a garbage collection.
   static Object* AllocateExternalStringFromAscii(
       ExternalAsciiString::Resource* resource);
   static Object* AllocateExternalStringFromTwoByte(
       ExternalTwoByteString::Resource* resource);
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   int marked_count_;
 
   // The count from the end of the previous full GC.  Will be zero if there
   // was no previous full GC.
   int previous_marked_count_;
 };
 
 } }  // namespace v8::internal
 
 #endif  // V8_HEAP_H_