Re: Extended globbing seems to have become much slower in recent versions of Zsh

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 1:32 AM, Peter Stephenson
<p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There was a fairly recent optimsiation to handle patterns by metafying
> earlier in the case of parameter substitutions.  Globbing shouldn't have
> been substantially affected although the order of operations is a bit
> different.  I don't see how this could be relevant, though.

That change also pre-dates the 5.2 release, so may explain the
improvement from 5.1 to 5.2 but not the slowdown from 5.0.5 to 5.0.6.