compat, '*/*/*' on linux-2.6.git file list 2000 times, before:
wildmatch 7s 985049us
fnmatch 2s 735541us or 34.26% faster
and after:
wildmatch 4s 492549us
fnmatch 0s 888263us or 19.77% slower
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <redacted>
---
wildmatch.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
diff --git a/wildmatch.c b/wildmatch.c
index 3794c4d..68b02e4 100644
--- a/wildmatch.c
+++ b/wildmatch.c
@@ -132,6 +132,27 @@ static int dowild(const uchar *p, const uchar *text, unsigned int flags)
while (1) {
if (t_ch == '\0')
break;
+ /*
+ * Try to advance faster when an asterisk is
+ * followed by a literal. We know in this case
+ * that the the string before the literal
+ * must belong to "*".
+ */
+ if (!is_glob_special(*p)) {
+ p_ch = *p;
+ if ((flags & WM_CASEFOLD) && ISUPPER(p_ch))
+ p_ch = tolower(p_ch);
+ while ((t_ch = *text) != '\0' &&
+ (!(flags & WM_PATHNAME) || t_ch != '/')) {
+ if ((flags & WM_CASEFOLD) && ISUPPER(t_ch))
+ t_ch = tolower(t_ch);
+ if (t_ch == p_ch)
+ break;
+ text++;
+ }
+ if (t_ch != p_ch)
+ return WM_NOMATCH;
+ }
if ((matched = dowild(p, text, flags)) != WM_NOMATCH) {
if (!special || matched != WM_ABORT_TO_STARSTAR)
return matched;--
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