[p4] Slowdown and unquoted wildcard paths

[Robert Cowham]

This might be an alternative feature of p4v (which has a few!), but it ain't
the same as what happens on the command line - as Shawn says, it is using
the API directly.

Does the 2006.1 beta do the same thing for you? Have you tried turning
logging on via Preferences and seeing timings in the log file (also then try
turning off for greater speed).

> I would be surprised if this problem were related to wildcard 
> expansion.  At the command line, it's the windows command 
> shell that's trying to expand the wildcard before passing on 
> to the p4.exe... that's where the slow-down comes from.  But 
> p4v is using the C++ api, which does not have this problem.
> I have indeed noticed this behavior in P4V... but it's never 
> been too frequent or annoying for me.  It does appear to do a 
> fair amount of caching, and maybe that is the bulk of the explanation.