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@@ -9,6 +9,47 @@ Here's my patch - please consider it! -- [[KathrynAndersen]]
>> I think so, yeah. Anyway, do you have any benchmark results handy,
>> Kathryn? --[[Joey]]
+>>> See below.
+>>> Also, would it make more sense for glob2re to return qr/^$re$/i rather than qr/$re/? Everything that uses glob2re seems to use
+ $foo =~ /^$re$/i
+>>> rather than /$re/ so I think that would make sense.
+>>> -- [[KathrynAndersen]]
+
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+Benchmarks done with Devel::Profile on the same testbed IkiWiki setup. I'm just showing the start of the profile output, since that's what's relevant.
+
+Before:
+
+time elapsed (wall): 27.4173
+time running program: 22.5909 (82.40%)
+time profiling (est.): 4.8264 (17.60%)
+number of calls: 1314729
+number of exceptions: 65
+
+%Time Sec. #calls sec/call F name
+11.05 2.4969 62333 0.000040 IkiWiki::PageSpec::match_glob
+ 4.10 0.9261 679 0.001364 Text::Balanced::_match_tagged
+ 2.72 0.6139 59812 0.000010 IkiWiki::SuccessReason::merge_influences
+
+
+After:
+
+time elapsed (wall): 26.1843
+time running program: 21.5673 (82.37%)
+time profiling (est.): 4.6170 (17.63%)
+number of calls: 1252433
+number of exceptions: 65
+
+%Time Sec. #calls sec/call F name
+ 7.66 1.6521 62333 0.000027 IkiWiki::PageSpec::match_glob
+ 4.33 0.9336 679 0.001375 Text::Balanced::_match_tagged
+ 2.81 0.6057 59812 0.000010 IkiWiki::SuccessReason::merge_influences
+
+
+Note that the seconds per call for match_glob in the "after" case has gone down by about a third.
+
+K.A.
+
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diff --git a/IkiWiki.pm b/IkiWiki.pm