Implement faster trimming of control characters #289
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Due to a V8 bug (https://issues.chromium.org/issues/42204424), negative end-of-string matches are slow, as shown in #286. We can avoid triggering this slowdown for certain inputs by just implementing the trimming using loops.
Closes #286. Closes #288 by superseding it.