This makes construction of Utf16String fallible in OOM conditions. The
immediate impact is that PrimitiveString must then be fallible as well,
as it may either transcode UTF-8 to UTF-16, or create a UTF-16 string
from ropes.
There are a couple of places where it is very non-trivial to propagate
the error further. A FIXME has been added to those locations.
Note that js_rope_string() has been folded into this, the old name was
misleading - it would not always create a rope string, only if both
sides are not empty strings. Use a three-argument create() overload
instead.
Let's not incur the cost of a synchronous conversion to UTF-8 for all
the legacy static properties after running a regular expression.
The SunSpider subtest regexp-dna goes from taking ~25 sec to ~0.7 sec
on my machine.