bug#69775: [PATCH] Use regexp-opt in dired-omit-regexp

[Spencer Baugh]

Tags: patch


In my benchmarking, for large dired buffers, using regexp-opt provides
around a 3x speedup in omitting.

regexp-opt takes around 5 milliseconds, so to avoid slowing down
omitting in small dired buffers we cache the return value.

Since omitting is now 3x faster, increase dired-omit-size-limit by 3x.

* lisp/dired-x.el (dired-omit--extension-regexp-cache): Add.
(dired-omit-regexp): Use regexp-opt.
(dired-omit-size-limit): Increase, since omitting is now faster.

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