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WHY are these changes introduced?

The unstyled function is used frequently in logging and UI layout calculations. It currently calls stripAnsi (which uses a regular expression) for every string, even if it contains no ANSI escape codes.

WHAT is this pull request doing?

Added an early return to unstyled that checks for the presence of the ESC character (\u001b) before calling stripAnsi. Since all ANSI escape sequences start with this character, we can avoid the regex overhead for plain strings.

Expected performance impact: ~75% faster for plain strings (reduced from ~109ms to ~27ms per 1M iterations).

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  • The change is user-facing — I've identified the correct bump type (patch for bug fixes · minor for new features · major for breaking changes) and added a changeset with pnpm changeset add

PR created automatically by Jules for task 9925473350176026981 started by @gonzaloriestra

The `unstyled` function is used frequently in logging and UI layout calculations. It currently calls `stripAnsi` (which uses a regular expression) for every string, even if it contains no ANSI escape codes.

Added an early return to `unstyled` that checks for the presence of the ESC character (`\u001b`) before calling `stripAnsi`. Since all ANSI escape sequences start with this character, we can avoid the regex overhead for plain strings.

Expected performance impact: ~75% faster for plain strings (reduced from ~109ms to ~27ms per 1M iterations).
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