Add a common regexp cache

```
BenchmarkGetOrCompileRegexp-10    	73959368	        13.71 ns/op	       0 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkCompileRegexp-10         	 3143529	       380.1 ns/op	     872 B/op	      10 allocs/op
```

common/hstrings/strings.go

@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ package hstrings
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"regexp"
 	"strings"
+	"sync"
 
 	"github.com/gohugoio/hugo/compare"
 )
@@ -55,3 +57,45 @@ func EqualAny(a string, b ...string) bool {
 	}
 	return false
 }
+
+// regexpCache represents a cache of regexp objects protected by a mutex.
+type regexpCache struct {
+	mu sync.RWMutex
+	re map[string]*regexp.Regexp
+}
+
+func (rc *regexpCache) getOrCompileRegexp(pattern string) (re *regexp.Regexp, err error) {
+	var ok bool
+
+	if re, ok = rc.get(pattern); !ok {
+		re, err = regexp.Compile(pattern)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		rc.set(pattern, re)
+	}
+
+	return re, nil
+}
+
+func (rc *regexpCache) get(key string) (re *regexp.Regexp, ok bool) {
+	rc.mu.RLock()
+	re, ok = rc.re[key]
+	rc.mu.RUnlock()
+	return
+}
+
+func (rc *regexpCache) set(key string, re *regexp.Regexp) {
+	rc.mu.Lock()
+	rc.re[key] = re
+	rc.mu.Unlock()
+}
+
+var reCache = regexpCache{re: make(map[string]*regexp.Regexp)}
+
+// GetOrCompileRegexp retrieves a regexp object from the cache based upon the pattern.
+// If the pattern is not found in the cache, the pattern is compiled and added to
+// the cache.
+func GetOrCompileRegexp(pattern string) (re *regexp.Regexp, err error) {
+	return reCache.getOrCompileRegexp(pattern)
+}

common/hstrings/strings_test.go

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 package hstrings
 
 import (
+	"regexp"
 	"testing"
 
 	qt "github.com/frankban/quicktest"
@@ -34,3 +35,24 @@ func TestStringEqualFold(t *testing.T) {
 	c.Assert(StringEqualFold(s1).Eq("b"), qt.Equals, false)
 
 }
+
+func TestGetOrCompileRegexp(t *testing.T) {
+	c := qt.New(t)
+
+	re, err := GetOrCompileRegexp(`\d+`)
+	c.Assert(err, qt.IsNil)
+	c.Assert(re.MatchString("123"), qt.Equals, true)
+
+}
+
+func BenchmarkGetOrCompileRegexp(b *testing.B) {
+	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+		GetOrCompileRegexp(`\d+`)
+	}
+}
+
+func BenchmarkCompileRegexp(b *testing.B) {
+	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+		regexp.MustCompile(`\d+`)
+	}
+}

tpl/strings/regexp.go

@@ -14,16 +14,14 @@
 package strings
 
 import (
-	"regexp"
+	"github.com/gohugoio/hugo/common/hstrings"
-	"sync"
-
 	"github.com/spf13/cast"
 )
 
 // FindRE returns a list of strings that match the regular expression. By default all matches
 // will be included. The number of matches can be limited with an optional third parameter.
 func (ns *Namespace) FindRE(expr string, content any, limit ...any) ([]string, error) {
-	re, err := reCache.Get(expr)
+	re, err := hstrings.GetOrCompileRegexp(expr)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -54,7 +52,7 @@ func (ns *Namespace) FindRE(expr string, content any, limit ...any) ([]string, e
 // limited with the optional limit parameter. A return value of nil indicates
 // no match.
 func (ns *Namespace) FindRESubmatch(expr string, content any, limit ...any) ([][]string, error) {
-	re, err := reCache.Get(expr)
+	re, err := hstrings.GetOrCompileRegexp(expr)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -102,7 +100,7 @@ func (ns *Namespace) ReplaceRE(pattern, repl, s any, n ...any) (_ string, err er
 		}
 	}
 
-	re, err := reCache.Get(sp)
+	re, err := hstrings.GetOrCompileRegexp(sp)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
@@ -116,40 +114,3 @@ func (ns *Namespace) ReplaceRE(pattern, repl, s any, n ...any) (_ string, err er
 		return re.ReplaceAllString(str, sr)
 	}), nil
 }
-
-// regexpCache represents a cache of regexp objects protected by a mutex.
-type regexpCache struct {
-	mu sync.RWMutex
-	re map[string]*regexp.Regexp
-}
-
-// Get retrieves a regexp object from the cache based upon the pattern.
-// If the pattern is not found in the cache, create one
-func (rc *regexpCache) Get(pattern string) (re *regexp.Regexp, err error) {
-	var ok bool
-
-	if re, ok = rc.get(pattern); !ok {
-		re, err = regexp.Compile(pattern)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-		rc.set(pattern, re)
-	}
-
-	return re, nil
-}
-
-func (rc *regexpCache) get(key string) (re *regexp.Regexp, ok bool) {
-	rc.mu.RLock()
-	re, ok = rc.re[key]
-	rc.mu.RUnlock()
-	return
-}
-
-func (rc *regexpCache) set(key string, re *regexp.Regexp) {
-	rc.mu.Lock()
-	rc.re[key] = re
-	rc.mu.Unlock()
-}
-
-var reCache = regexpCache{re: make(map[string]*regexp.Regexp)}