mmtarfilter uses fnmatch to handle path exclusions and inclusions.
Python's fnmatch handles shell patterns by translating them to regular
expressions, with a 256-entry LRU cache. With more than 256 path
exclusions or inclusions, this LRU cache no longer works, and every
invocation of fnmatch on every file in every package will re-translate
and re-compile a regular expression, resulting in much worse
performance.
Translate all the shell patterns to regular expressions once. For an
mmdebstrap invocation with around 500 path filters, this speeds up
mmdebstrap by more than a minute.
Josh Triplett
