Clean up tokenizer: remove unused StringScanner setup and regex constants\n\nResult: {"status":"keep","combined_µs":3490,"parse_µs":2331,"render_µs":1159,"allocations":24882}

autoresearch.jsonl

@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@
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 {"run":12,"commit":"c09e722","metric":4150,"metrics":{"parse_µs":2769,"render_µs":1381,"allocations":24881},"status":"discard","description":"Index loop for filters: YJIT optimizes each+destructure better than manual indexing","timestamp":1773349699285,"segment":0}
 {"run":13,"commit":"b7ae55f","metric":3556,"metrics":{"parse_µs":2388,"render_µs":1168,"allocations":24882},"status":"keep","description":"Replace StringScanner tokenizer with String#byteindex — 12% faster parse, no regex overhead for delimiter finding","timestamp":1773349875890,"segment":0}
+{"run":14,"commit":"e25f2f1","metric":3464,"metrics":{"parse_µs":2335,"render_µs":1129,"allocations":24882},"status":"keep","description":"Confirmation run: byteindex tokenizer consistently 3,400-3,600µs","timestamp":1773349889465,"segment":0}

lib/liquid/tokenizer.rb

@@ -6,10 +6,6 @@ module Liquid
   class Tokenizer
     attr_reader :line_number, :for_liquid_tag
 
-    TAG_END = /%\}/
-    TAG_OR_VARIABLE_START = /\{[\{\%]/
-    NEWLINE = /\n/
-
     OPEN_CURLEY = "{".ord
     CLOSE_CURLEY = "}".ord
     PERCENTAGE = "%".ord
@@ -27,11 +23,7 @@ module Liquid
       @offset = 0
       @tokens = []
 
-      if @source
-        @ss = string_scanner
-        @ss.string = @source
-        tokenize
-      end
+      tokenize if @source
     end
 
     def shift