This reverts commit 2ef1fb2c.

As described in PR #13627 this commit broke functionality when passing
a negative Fixnum to the `String#to` method:

```ruby
assert_equal "hell", s.to(-2)
```

Before the revert, this failed with:

```
  1) Failure:
StringAccessTest#test_#to_with_negative_Fixnum,_position_is_counted_from_the_end [test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb:275]:
Expected: "hell"
  Actual: nil
```

This revert is to keep the functionality on `master` working.
If there is another way to get the performance benefit and keep
the documented functionality we can add that.

/cc @amatsuda @carlosantoniodasilva