bug#36566: 27.0.50; debug is sometimes horribly slow

[Stefan Monnier]

Lars Ingebrigtsen [2022-05-15 14:25:09] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Not sure how to do it for `cl-print`, tho.  I suspect we'll end up
>> having to use dynamic vars internally otherwise it'll break the existing
>> signature of `cl-print-object` (we can't so easily add an optional arg
>> to a generic function).
> Yes.
> But this reminds me -- why do we have `cl-print' anyway?

Because we want to let packages use `cl-defmethod` to provide their own
output syntax for their objects.

> Shouldn't the C version handle printing things nicely?

The C code doesn't really know about cl-defstructs (or advice objects).


        Stefan