Revert "Avoiding re-externalization of strings."

This reverts commit 2c4c2ad694dfd4e852039644c7bfe22e594587c6.

Reason for revert: Speculatively revert CL, as it seems to break blink debug bots:
https://ci.chromium.org/p/v8/builders/luci.v8.ci/V8-Blink%20Linux%2064%20(dbg)/12756
https://ci.chromium.org/p/v8/builders/luci.v8.ci/V8-Blink%20Linux%2064%20(dbg)/12764

# Fatal error in ../../v8/src/api.cc, line 5960
# Check failed: expected == value ((nil) vs. 0x176ae0f70a48).

Original change's description:
> Avoiding re-externalization of strings.
>
> Bug: chromium:845409
> Cq-Include-Trybots: luci.chromium.try:linux_chromium_rel_ng
> Change-Id: I75bddcf0e8879d2161486f24d1cd4e46d8fe008d
> Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/1139056
> Commit-Queue: Rodrigo Bruno <rfbpb@google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jakob Kummerow <jkummerow@chromium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Ulan Degenbaev <ulan@chromium.org>
> Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#54599}

TBR=ulan@chromium.org,jkummerow@chromium.org,hpayer@chromium.org,mlippautz@chromium.org,rfbpb@google.com

# Not skipping CQ checks because original CL landed > 1 day ago.

Bug: chromium:845409
Change-Id: Ie172148c0bdef71c0cf9819e63a66aec09d6888d
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/1146582
Commit-Queue: Sigurd Schneider <sigurds@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Sigurd Schneider <sigurds@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#54611}
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README.md

V8 JavaScript Engine

V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine.

V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262.

V8 is written in C++ and is used in Google Chrome, the open source browser from Google.

V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ application.

V8 Project page: https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki

Getting the Code

Checkout depot tools, and run

    fetch v8

This will checkout V8 into the directory v8 and fetch all of its dependencies. To stay up to date, run

    git pull origin
    gclient sync

For fetching all branches, add the following into your remote configuration in .git/config:

    fetch = +refs/branch-heads/*:refs/remotes/branch-heads/*
    fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*

Contributing

Please follow the instructions mentioned on the V8 wiki.