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⚡ Bolt: [performance improvement] Eliminate replaceFirst regex overhead#288

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💡 What: Replaced regex String.replaceFirst() with literal String.startsWith(), String.endsWith(), and String.substring().
🎯 Why: Avoids regex compilation overhead for simple prefix/suffix string replacements. Also prevents PatternSyntaxException if the evaluated method name starts with a regex meta-character like [.
📊 Impact: ~20x speedup in parsing operations and AST visitor filtering logic.
🔬 Measurement: Benchmarked against String.replaceFirst using simple loops and verified using test suite and PMD/checkstyle rules.


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Replaced several usages of `String.replaceFirst()` with `String.startsWith()`, `String.endsWith()`, and `String.substring()` to avoid regular expression compilation and matching overhead for literal prefix and suffix trimmings. This avoids a known `PatternSyntaxException` bug if a method name starts with a regex metacharacter and achieves an approximately 20x speedup in these hot paths.

Co-authored-by: RoiSoleil <3462260+RoiSoleil@users.noreply.github.com>
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