[turbofan] Optimize String#slice(-1) calls.

In TurboFan we can easily recognize calls to String.prototype.slice
where the start parameter is -1 and the end parameter is either
undefined or not present. These calls either return an empty string if
the input string is empty, or the last character of the input string
as a single character string. So we can just make use of the existing
StringCharAt operator.

This reduces the overhead of the String.prototype.slice calls from
optimized code in the chai test of the web-tooling-benchmark
significantly. We observe a 2-3% improvement on the test.

Bug: v8:6936, v8:7137
Change-Id: Iebe02667446880f5760e3e8c80f8b7cc712df663
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/795726
Commit-Queue: Benedikt Meurer <bmeurer@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Jakob Gruber <jgruber@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#49704}
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README.md

V8 JavaScript Engine

V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine.

V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262.

V8 is written in C++ and is used in Google Chrome, the open source browser from Google.

V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ application.

V8 Project page: https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki

Getting the Code

Checkout depot tools, and run

    fetch v8

This will checkout V8 into the directory v8 and fetch all of its dependencies. To stay up to date, run

    git pull origin
    gclient sync

For fetching all branches, add the following into your remote configuration in .git/config:

    fetch = +refs/branch-heads/*:refs/remotes/branch-heads/*
    fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*

Contributing

Please follow the instructions mentioned on the V8 wiki.