// limit (8KB), we stop growing the source string once the limit
	// is reached and keep reusing the same source string - that
	// should therefore be always resident in the L1 cache - until we
	// have completed the construction of the result.
	// This yields significant speedups (up to +100%) in cases where
	// the result length is large (roughly, over L2 cache size).
	const chunkLimit = 8 * 1024