>> I think so, yeah. Anyway, do you have any benchmark results handy,
>> Kathryn? --[[Joey]]
+>>> See below.
+>>> Also, would it make more sense for glob2re to return qr/^$re$/i rather than qr/$re/? Everything that uses glob2re seems to use
+ $foo =~ /^$re$/i
+>>> rather than /$re/ so I think that would make sense.
+>>> -- [[KathrynAndersen]]
+
+>>>> Git branch `smcv/ka-glob-cache` has Kathryn's patch. Git
+>>>> branch `smcv/memoize-glob2re` does as I suggested, which
+>>>> is less verbose than Kathryn's patch but also not as
+>>>> fast; I'm not sure why, tbh. --[[smcv]]
+
+>>>>> I think it's because my patch focuses on match_glob while the memoize patch focuses on `glob2re`, and `glob2re` is called in `filecheck`, `meta` and `po` as well as in `match_glob` and `match_user`; thus the memoized `glob2re` is dealing with a bigger set of globs to look up, and thus could be just that little bit slower. -- [[KathrynAndersen]]
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------
+Benchmarks done with Devel::Profile on the same testbed IkiWiki setup. I'm just showing the start of the profile output, since that's what's relevant.
+
+Before:
+<pre>
+time elapsed (wall): 27.4173
+time running program: 22.5909 (82.40%)
+time profiling (est.): 4.8264 (17.60%)
+number of calls: 1314729
+number of exceptions: 65
+
+%Time Sec. #calls sec/call F name
+11.05 2.4969 62333 0.000040 IkiWiki::PageSpec::match_glob
+ 4.10 0.9261 679 0.001364 Text::Balanced::_match_tagged
+ 2.72 0.6139 59812 0.000010 IkiWiki::SuccessReason::merge_influences
+</pre>
+
+After:
+<pre>
+time elapsed (wall): 26.1843
+time running program: 21.5673 (82.37%)
+time profiling (est.): 4.6170 (17.63%)
+number of calls: 1252433
+number of exceptions: 65
+
+%Time Sec. #calls sec/call F name
+ 7.66 1.6521 62333 0.000027 IkiWiki::PageSpec::match_glob
+ 4.33 0.9336 679 0.001375 Text::Balanced::_match_tagged
+ 2.81 0.6057 59812 0.000010 IkiWiki::SuccessReason::merge_influences
+</pre>
+
+Note that the seconds per call for match_glob in the "after" case has gone down by about a third.
+
+K.A.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------
+
+A second set of benchmarks, done by rebuilding the docwiki at commit f942c2db05e4
+like so:
+
+ perl -Iblib/lib -d:Profile ikiwiki.in -setup docwiki.setup --no-verbose
+
+The docwiki appears to use fewer glob matches than Kathryn's wiki.
+
+With master:
+
+ time elapsed (wall): 29.6970
+ time running program: 24.6930 (83.15%)
+ time profiling (est.): 5.0041 (16.85%)
+ number of calls: 1359180
+ number of exceptions: 13
+
+ %Time Sec. #calls sec/call F name
+ 13.62 3.3629 3406 0.000987 Text::Balanced::_match_tagged
+ 10.84 2.6773 79442 0.000034 IkiWiki::PageSpec::match_glob
+ 3.08 0.7598 59454 0.000013 <anon>:IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm:223
+ 3.07 0.7593 29830 0.000025 IkiWiki::bestlink
+ 2.99 0.7378 10231 0.000072 IkiWiki::PageSpec::match_link
+
+With my `smcv/memoize-glob2re` branch:
+
+ time elapsed (wall): 30.4931
+ time running program: 25.1248 (82.39%)
+ time profiling (est.): 5.3683 (17.61%)
+ number of calls: 1439943
+ number of exceptions: 13
+
+ %Time Sec. #calls sec/call F name
+ 13.19 3.3146 3406 0.000973 Text::Balanced::_match_tagged
+ 8.41 2.1123 79442 0.000027 IkiWiki::PageSpec::match_glob
+ 3.97 0.9979 86905 0.000011 Memoize::_memoizer
+ 3.05 0.7654 59454 0.000013 <anon>:IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm:223
+ 3.02 0.7576 29830 0.000025 IkiWiki::bestlink
+
+and in a repeated run:
+
+ 8.40 2.0905 79442 0.000026 IkiWiki::PageSpec::match_glob
+
+With Kathryn's patch as seen in my `smcv/ka-glob-cache` branch:
+
+ time elapsed (wall): 27.7567
+ time running program: 22.9941 (82.84%)
+ time profiling (est.): 4.7627 (17.16%)
+ number of calls: 1279946
+ number of exceptions: 13
+
+ %Time Sec. #calls sec/call F name
+ 14.29 3.2867 3406 0.000965 Text::Balanced::_match_tagged
+ 7.89 1.8136 79442 0.000023 IkiWiki::PageSpec::match_glob
+ 3.30 0.7577 59454 0.000013 <anon>:IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm:223
+ 3.24 0.7461 29830 0.000025 IkiWiki::bestlink
+ 3.19 0.7332 143 0.005127 ? IkiWiki::pagespec_match_list
+
+and in a repeated run:
+
+ 7.84 1.8253 79442 0.000023 IkiWiki::PageSpec::match_glob
+
+--[[smcv]]
+
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+
+
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