doc: add performance warning to require.extensions

Discourage using require.extensions because it slows down the module
loader.  The number of file system operations that the module system
has to perform in order to resolve a `require(...)` statement to a
filename is proportional to the number of registered extensions.

PR-URL: #9196
Reviewed-By: Brian White <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]>

doc/api/globals.md

@@ -216,10 +216,17 @@ However, in practice, there are much better ways to do this, such as
 loading modules via some other Node.js program, or compiling them to
 JavaScript ahead of time.
 
-Since the Module system is locked, this feature will probably never go
+Since the module system is locked, this feature will probably never go
 away.  However, it may have subtle bugs and complexities that are best
 left untouched.
 
+Note that the number of file system operations that the module system
+has to perform in order to resolve a `require(...)` statement to a
+filename scales linearly with the number of registered extensions.
+
+In other words, adding extensions slows down the module loader and
+should be discouraged.
+
 ### require.resolve()
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