I just discovered that when using the taglist() function to search for an exact tag, bracketing the tag with '^' and '$' can make a tremendous difference in execution speed. I am currently developing code in a project that has a 1.5 GB tags file. Using taglist() to search for a file name without using those anchors takes 19 seconds; with them, 0.03 seconds.
The ":help taglist()" entry mentions using '^' and '$' to get an exact match, but says nothing about performance. Is this something that should be included in the documentation, or would it just lead to documentation bloat? Regards, Gary -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
