grep-regex: add fast path for -w/--word-regexp

Previously, ripgrep would always defer to the regex engine's capturing
matches in order to implement word matching. Namely, ripgrep would
determine the correct match offsets via a capturing group, since the
word regex is itself generated from the user supplied regex.

Unfortunately, the regex engine's capturing mode is still fairly slow,
so this commit adds a fast path to avoid capturing mode in the vast
majority of cases. See comments in the code for details.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 34caeaa2..203bd1c6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ Performance improvements:
   of ` `.
 * PERF:
   Improve literal detection when the `-w/--word-regexp` flag is used.
+* PERF:
+  Improve overall performance of the `-w/--word-regexp` flag.
 
 Feature enhancements: