* efficiency by inlining the implementation of {@link #nextEscapeIndex(CharSequence, int, int)}
   * directly. Doing this for {@link com.google.common.net.PercentEscaper} more than doubled the
   * performance for unescaped strings (as measured by {@code CharEscapersBenchmark}).
   *
   * @param string the literal string to be escaped
   * @return the escaped form of {@code string}