util: add fast path to stripVTControlCharacters #3408

Job	Run time
Build slim tarball	2m 23s
x86_64-linux: with shared libraries	35m 12s
aarch64-darwin: with shared libraries	37m 25s
aarch64-linux: with shared libraries	28m 44s
x86_64-darwin: with shared libraries	46m 3s
	2h 29m 47s

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