cmGeneratorExpressionLexer: only tokenize strings with a '$'

In standard libraries, `std::string::find` is usually implemented using
vectorized code. Since the Tokenize method iterates
character-by-character, doing an initial check using `find` improves
performance.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Source/cmGeneratorExpressionLexer.cxx b/Source/cmGeneratorExpressionLexer.cxx
index 95c79c1..e37f165 100644
--- a/Source/cmGeneratorExpressionLexer.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmGeneratorExpressionLexer.cxx
@@ -21,6 +21,12 @@ std::vector<cmGeneratorExpressionToken> cmGeneratorExpressionLexer::Tokenize(
 {
   std::vector<cmGeneratorExpressionToken> result;
 
+  if (input.find('$') == std::string::npos) {
+    result.push_back(cmGeneratorExpressionToken(
+      cmGeneratorExpressionToken::Text, input.c_str(), input.size()));
+    return result;
+  }
+
   const char* c = input.c_str();
   const char* upto = c;