Optimize String.similarity by avoiding allocation for bigrams. #100041
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The logic is the same; there's just a lot less copying than before.
Relevant

similarity
benchmark goes down from 530 to 80 (6.6x increase in speed).I also tested longer strings. In this example, the benchmark goes down from
48019us
to2417us
(20x increase in speed):