Re: Relative speed of globbing and regex implementations

[James Youngman]

On Dec 7, 2007 6:57 AM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> This is news to me.
> What type of patterns/regexps are you comparing?

Writing a test program shows me that it seems to be the other way
around, which is less surprising.   More careful testing with find
shows a result consistent with this, too.

It appears that the reason for my earlier, mistaken impression was a
combination of the overhead of base_name() and the difference in
anchoring behaviour between "find -regex" and "find -name".

Apologies for any wasted time,
James.