Fulltext Regexp Search is slow for big PDF collections

I have a library with about 4000 PDFs where I have created several saved searches containing regular expressions.

This does work fine, but (of course) takes a long time. Unfortunately the whole search is run again every time I select one of the saved searches in the Library, even if neither the attachments nor the RegExp have changed.

I have implemented a caching mechanism for fulltext searches, that vastly improves my zotero workflow.

I wanted to share this with the zotero community and I have created a PR in github with my implementation.

https://github.com/zotero/zotero/pull/3878

Maybe this can be considered for inclusion. I am open to any improvement suggestions.
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