Add specialized handler for checking if identical to string #4972
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This has a large performance benefit for the below snippet (0.64s vs 0.94s),
and a small benefit for
$alwaysStr == 'notnumeric'
/$s = 'other'
(for 1000 runs of test('test'))
==
behaves identically to===
, so reuse the opcode.This is similar to what was suggested in #4900
implementation and avoids expensive exception handling.