Why does "view" not allow wildcards?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:07:36 -0600
> From: John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com>
> CC: Ben Finney <ben+bazaar at benfinney.id.au>, bazaar at lists.canonical.com
> 
> 'bzr ls' was designed from the beginning to be shell-friendly
> (supporting stuff like --null). It was also believed that we would
> transition away from stuff like 'bzr inventory'.
> 
> So I would recommend using 'bzr ls', and feedback of where it is
> incomplete (espec, vs bzr inventory) is invited.

Well, one thing that is immediately visible is that "bzr ls -R" is
slower than "bzr inventory", and causes much more disk accesses.  By
contrast, "inventory" is lightning fast and doesn't touch the disk, or
so it seems.

Is that expected?