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> On Sat, Jun 24 2017, Junio C. Hamano jotted:
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>> 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.
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>