8349347: Very long-running regex with Matcher.find

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Updates to the Regex engine Curly and GroupCurly quantifier constructs so they do not match more than once against an empty slice or an empty group.

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• JDK-8349347: Very long-running regex with Matcher.find (Bug - P4)

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