[ruby-core:92301] [Ruby trunk Feature#15771] Add `String#split` option to set split_type string when a single space separator

Issue #15771 has been reported by 284km (kazuma furuhashi).

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Feature #15771: Add `String#split` option to set split_type string when a single space separator
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15771

* Author: 284km (kazuma furuhashi)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
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In String#split, when separator is a single space character, it execute as split_type: awk.

For example, CSV library handles it like this.
https://github.com/ruby/csv/blob/7ff57a50e81c368029fa9b664700bec4a456b81b/lib/csv/parser.rb#L508-L512

```
if @column_separator == " ".encode(@encoding)
  @split_column_separator = Regexp.new(@escaped_column_separator)
else
  @split_column_separator = @column_separator
end
```

Unfortunately, in this case regexp is slower than string. For example,
the following result is about 9 times slower.
https://github.com/284km/benchmarks_no_yatu#stringsplitstring-or-regexp

```
$ be benchmark-driver string_split_string-regexp.yml --rbenv '2.6.2'
Comparison:
              string:   3161117.6 i/s
              regexp:    344448.0 i/s - 9.18x  slower
```

So I want to add the :literal option to run as split_type: string.

# Implementation

- https://github.com/284km/ruby/tree/split_space
    - test code: https://github.com/284km/ruby/blob/split_space/test/ruby/test_string.rb#L1708-L1713

This change will result in the following:

```
" a  b   c    ".split(" ")
=> ["a", "b", "c"]
" a  b   c    ".split(" ", -1)
=> ["a", "b", "c", ""]
" a  b   c    ".split(" ", literal: true)
=> ["", "a", "", "b", "", "", "c"]
" a  b   c    ".split(" ", -1, literal: true)
=> ["", "a", "", "b", "", "", "c", "", "", "", ""]
```




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