Bruno Dumon wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 11:27 +0200, Carsten Ziegeler wrote: >> I'm not sure if the code of the wildcard helper is correct at all; I >> guess there are still other cases where the pattern does not match >> although it should. So I think we have to rewrite the code anyway. One >> idea I had is to transform the pattern into a regexp and then use >> one of the regexp libraries for matching. > > This won't be of much help, but I thought the wildcard matcher is > significantly faster than regexpes. > Yes, the wildcard matcher is indeed faster (although the question is if it really makes a difference for the performance of the whole request). Why do you think that using regexp won't be of much help? The regexp libraries are tried and trusted.
Carsten -- Carsten Ziegeler - Open Source Group, S&N AG http://www.s-und-n.de http://www.osoco.org/weblogs/rael/
