Unfortunately, the benchmark doesn't tell the whole story. Many of the regex-based solutions fail on unescaped regex characters.
All of the faster ones fail to correctly find the longest string when fed either of:
1111111121111111111112111111111111111111111112111111111111211111
ababacababacadacababacadaeadacabaz
(Including mine, which is sad, as the first one is my publish test string:()
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