Port and integrate the irregexp engine from V8

runtime/lib/string_patch.dart

Index: runtime/lib/string_patch.dart
diff --git a/runtime/lib/string_patch.dart b/runtime/lib/string_patch.dart
index 3ac78a8fd9404faa5724cd771666eb61053110d5..18266d18cbda9ad7b33e08023ded1b8487e50665 100644
--- a/runtime/lib/string_patch.dart
+++ b/runtime/lib/string_patch.dart
@@ -675,6 +675,20 @@ class _OneByteString extends _StringBase implements String {
     return super.split(pattern);
   }
 
+  // Loads up to 4 code units into a single integer.
+  int _codeUnitsAt(int index, int count) {
+    assert(index >= 0);
+    assert(index + count - 1 < this.length);
+    assert(0 < count && count <= 4);
+
+    int codeUnits = 0;
+    for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+      codeUnits |= this.codeUnitAt(index + i) << (i * 8);
+    }
+
+    return codeUnits;
+  }
+
   // All element of 'strings' must be OneByteStrings.
   static _concatAll(List<String> strings, int totalLength) {
     // TODO(srdjan): Improve code below and raise or eliminate the limit.
@@ -938,6 +952,20 @@ class _TwoByteString extends _StringBase implements String {
   bool operator ==(Object other) {
     return super == other;
   }
+  
+  // Loads up to 2 code units into a single integer.
+  int _codeUnitsAt(int index, int count) {
+    assert(index >= 0);
+    assert(index + count - 1 < this.length);
+    assert(0 < count && count <= 2);
+
+    int codeUnits = 0;
+    for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+      codeUnits |= this.codeUnitAt(index + i) << (i * 16);
+    }
+
+    return codeUnits;
+  }
 }