Optimize control char stripping#167
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With the introduction of `Regexp.timeout`, which is set to 1s by default in Rails 8.0, we ran into the control char stripping `gsub` sometimes timing out. This can be done much more efficiently with `String#tr_s`, it's about 3x faster and has guaranteed linear performance.
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With the introduction of
Regexp.timeout, which is set to 1s by default in Rails 8.0, we ran into the control char strippinggsubsometimes timing out.This can be done much more efficiently with
String#tr_s, it's about 3x faster and has guaranteed linear performance.