Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sat, Jun 24 2017, Junio C. Hamano jotted: > >> Is the far-in-the-future vision to make this the other way around? >> That is, this being scaffolding, wildmatch_match() which is supposed >> to be precompiled match actually uses wildmatch() as its underlying >> engine, but when a viable compilation machinery is plugged in, the >> wildmatch_match() that takes a precompiled pattern will call into >> the machinery to execute the compiled pattern, and wildmatch() will >> be reimplemented as "compile, call wildmatch_match() once and >> discard" sequence? > > Exactly there would be no functional difference in the results, only > fixed overhead.
OK, good! Thanks.
