Legacy implementation of RegExp.prototype[Symbol.split] which doesn't properly call the underlying exec, @@species methods
function RegExpSplit(string, limit) {
  // TODO(yangguo): allow non-regexp receivers.
  if (!IS_REGEXP(this)) {
    throw MakeTypeError(kIncompatibleMethodReceiver,
                        "RegExp.prototype.@@split", this);
  }
  var separator = this;
  var subject = TO_STRING(string);

  limit = (IS_UNDEFINED(limit)) ? kMaxUint32 : TO_UINT32(limit);
  var length = subject.length;

  if (limit === 0) return [];

  if (length === 0) {
    if (DoRegExpExec(separator, subject, 0, 0) !== null) return [];
    return [subject];
  }

  var currentIndex = 0;
  var startIndex = 0;
  var startMatch = 0;
  var result = new InternalArray();

  outer_loop:
  while (true) {
    if (startIndex === length) {
      result[result.length] = %_SubString(subject, currentIndex, length);
      break;
    }

    var matchInfo = DoRegExpExec(separator, subject, startIndex);
    if (matchInfo === null || length === (startMatch = matchInfo[CAPTURE0])) {
      result[result.length] = %_SubString(subject, currentIndex, length);
      break;
    }
    var endIndex = matchInfo[CAPTURE1];

    // We ignore a zero-length match at the currentIndex.
    if (startIndex === endIndex && endIndex === currentIndex) {
      if (REGEXP_UNICODE(this) && AtSurrogatePair(subject, startIndex)) {
        startIndex += 2;
      } else {
        startIndex++;
      }
      continue;
    }

    result[result.length] = %_SubString(subject, currentIndex, startMatch);

    if (result.length === limit) break;

    var matchinfo_len = NUMBER_OF_CAPTURES(matchInfo) + REGEXP_FIRST_CAPTURE;
    for (var i = REGEXP_FIRST_CAPTURE + 2; i < matchinfo_len; ) {
      var start = matchInfo[i++];
      var end = matchInfo[i++];
      if (end != -1) {
        result[result.length] = %_SubString(subject, start, end);
      } else {
        result[result.length] = UNDEFINED;
      }
      if (result.length === limit) break outer_loop;
    }

    startIndex = currentIndex = endIndex;
  }

  var array_result = [];
  %MoveArrayContents(result, array_result);
  return array_result;
}