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From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: There is a serious inefficiency in the way zsh handles wildcards
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:02:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140911150226.215ec1db@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHAq8pGY7SyXQfJPzty+th-8Dd1Y9tbWLUPubRMe8_CW+5m2Wg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 10:54:23 -0300
Paulo César Pereira de Andrade
<paulo.cesar.pereira.de.andrade@gmail.com> wrote:
>   Just as a note, I noticed that the huge slowdown usually would
> only happen if there was a match, if there was nothing matching
> /tmp/*.* (usually a directory or a symlink to one) handling of the
> pattern would not cause noticeable delay.

I've a vague feeling I optimised it some time ago so that if there was a
string component to the pattern it searched for that to check it was
worth doing all the hairy pattern stuff, but I may be misremembering
and I'm too lazy to check...

pws


      reply	other threads:[~2014-09-11 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-08 13:27 Paulo César Pereira de Andrade
2014-09-08 14:01 ` Peter Stephenson
2014-09-11 13:54   ` Paulo César Pereira de Andrade
2014-09-11 14:02     ` Peter Stephenson [this message]

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