Re: bash "extglob" needs to upgrade at least like zsh "kshglob"

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/30/22 6:32 AM, Oğuz wrote:

> Or
> (g) make the existing extglob code faster and avoid introducing more
> complexity into the shell.

The extglob code has reasonable performance when it's asked to do the most
common thing: check whether a given null-terminated string matches a given
(possibly extended) pattern, anchored at start and end.

The problem arises when you want to support the leftmost-longest substring
match semantics required by pattern substitution. There's no
straightforward way to simply extend the model -- you have to implement
something new that supports those semantics to replace the simple way it's
done now.

If you want to stick with bash when performance for your use case becomes
unacceptable and eschew the (easy, simple, fast) sed workarounds, you're
going to be frustrated until something changes.

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