bug#40704: 28.0.50; Improve and speed up (Gnus) registry saving

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> Presumably there's already code to print a hash table somewhere in
>> Emacs?  That would be the other printer, since your patch adds a new
>> one.
>
> That's what the code currently already does.  But: See what I wrote
> about the purpose of the patch: our saving code needs to modify how
> elements in the hash table are printed.  The Lisp printer doesn't allow
> that per se.  My suggested patch substitutes a very inefficient hack
> with a more efficient hack.  The current code uses printing + re-reading
> AFAIR - and that on nested hash tables.
>
> I thought long about removing the need for this hack altogehter, but
> this is very complicated, if not impossible (yes, you would need to
> change the printer).

I didn't object to this new, more efficient printer -- I just pointed
out that you should add comments to both of the hash table printers that
there are (now) two of them.

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