bug#29463: 27.0.50; Backtraces with large strings is very slow

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I was trying to debug some code that dealt with very large SVG images,
> and getting a backtrace buffer proved impossible -- Emacs would just
> hang.
>
> Here's a trivial test case:
>
> (let ((a (make-string 100000000 ?a)))
>  (debug a))
>
> On my machine, this takes about half a minute to display, but if you
> have deeply nested code that the debugger is trying to display, you'll
> get that additional time per frame, I think, so it can take arbitrarily
> long to render the buffer.

This has been fixed in Emacs 27 by shortening the display of the
strings, so I'm closing this bug report.

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