Fix for execution tests on simulator.
Port 3518e492

Original commit message:
    Short external strings do not cache the resource data, and may be used
    for compressible strings. The assumptions about their lengths is
    invalid and may lead to oob reads.

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Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/1904033003

Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#35703}