very long variable + parameter expansion = crazy cpu usage ?

[Mike Frysinger]

i had some scripts that were acting up lately and i finally managed to track 
it back to a very long varable + parameter expansion

i currently have a variable such that ${#var} ~= 2440.  when i try to do 
something like [[ -z ${var/*ccache*} ]], it takes an abnormal amount of time 
and proceeds to use 100% of my cpu.  when i say abnormal, i mean that i have 
a 2.2gig amd64 with 2gigs of ram and this statement can easily take up ~20 
seconds to complete when there's nothing else running on the system.

tested on Gentoo amd64/ppc with bash3 (plus the 16 patches available) and on 
Gentoo ia64 with bash2 (plus the 7 patches available), and on Debian i386 
with bash3 (no idea what patches it has though).  all exhibit the same bug :(

an example:
$ export var=$(perl -e 'print "a" x 3000')
$ time [[ -z ${var/*ccache*} ]]
real    0m22.928s
user    0m22.031s
sys     0m0.008s

if i load up say zsh and try the same thing, the test is pretty much 
instantaneous :(
-mike