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### Performance

- **RegExp construction and exec no longer hash or copy the pattern text.**

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Limit the no-hash/no-copy claim to cache hits.

js_regexp_compile_value still creates and hashes (pattern_str.to_string(), flags_str.to_string()) keys at crates/perry-runtime/src/regex/compile.rs, Lines 153-171. The first-use builder also creates those keys at crates/perry-runtime/src/regex/lazy.rs, Lines 233-257. This statement is too broad for all RegExp construction. State that the site-cache hit path avoids this work.

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In `@changelog.d/keystroke-regex-site-cache.md` at line 3, Update the changelog
statement to limit the no-hash/no-copy claim to RegExp site-cache hits, rather
than all RegExp construction and exec operations.

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On the claude-code TUI a keystroke re-runs ink's layout, whose text
measurement (`string-width` / `emoji-regex` / `ansi-regex`) evaluates a
regex literal per text segment — `emojiRegex()` is a fresh ~12 KB `/…/g`
per call. Each `js_regexp_new` copied that pattern three times and
SipHashed it once (the `VALIDATED_PATTERNS` probe key, `owned_pattern`,
the `REGEX_SOURCE_TABLE` entry); the first operation on each header did
the same three more times in `build_and_install_programs`; and, for the
common pattern with no fancy fallback, `lookup_fancy_regex` and
`lookup_repeat_matcher` fell through to a full clone + hash of the pattern
on EVERY exec. SipHash over pattern text was 31 % of the main thread in
the 20 s after a 400-char reply had rendered (regex 38 % inclusive).

- `crates/perry-runtime/src/regex/site_cache.rs` (new) — a thread-local,
content-keyed construction cache: a cheap fingerprint (length, three
8-byte windows, canonical flags) plus a full byte compare, so identity
never depends on an address. A hit skips validation (validity is a pure
function of the pair), shares the owned pattern/flags as `Arc<str>`, and
installs the programs the first executed header compiled — the new
header is born built and never touches the `(pattern, flags)` caches.
Kill switch `PERRY_REGEX_SITE_CACHE=0`.
- `regex.rs` — `lookup_fancy_regex` / `lookup_repeat_matcher` treat a
built header as authoritative (a null program pointer after the build
IS the answer; every install path publishes all three together), so no
per-exec cache probe remains. `REGEX_SOURCE_TABLE` holds `Arc<str>`
pairs; the two address-keyed regex tables use the pointer hasher.
- `regex/exec.rs` — `test` on a global/sticky receiver runs
`regexp_find_advancing`, the find-only twin of `exec`'s engine phase
(same engine order, `lastIndex` advance/reset and sticky anchoring),
instead of materializing a captures array plus one string per capture
that it then discarded.
- `hot_diag.rs` (new) — `PERRY_REGEX_DIAG=<path>` (constructions,
validated/site hits, pattern bytes, compiles, cache clears, lazy builds,
exec/test/match/replace counts, capture bytes, per-pattern table) and
`PERRY_IC_DIAG=<path>` (property-read IC misses by reason and by site).
Snapshots every ~1 s of activity; diagnostic only.

Tests: `site_cache_reconstruction_is_born_built` (fails without the
cache) and `global_test_advances_and_resets_last_index` (every
`lastIndex` branch of the find-only path, all three engines, UTF-16
units) in `regex/tests.rs`.
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