This is a follow-up to bug#36447, which has been fixed. Lazy rehashing for hash tables should be removed. This patch does that. Lazy rehashing makes all code that accesses hash tables a little more complicated; in at least one case, we forgot to do that, resulting in bug#36596. The sole benefit of lazy rehashing to be mentioned so far is that start-up time is reduced a little (by less than a millisecond on this system), and that for certain usage patterns (many short Emacs sessions that don't do very much, I think), this might outweigh the negative consequences of lazy rehashing. Lazy rehashing means less maintainable code, more code, and, at run-time, slightly slower code. In particular, it means that we have to have a comment in lisp.h which distracts from the code and has to be marked as "IMPORTANT!!!!!!!", which I think is nearly as annoying as having to jump through special hoops before accessing a hash table. I'm posting this as a separate bug so we can have a, hopefully, brief discussion about it and then either move away from lazy rehashing or continue using it; if we decide to continue using it, it should be documented in much more detail. (We should keep in mind that conditional branches, even ones that are well-predicted and don't cause cache misses, aren't free: they use execution units, and preparing their arguments in registers increases register pressure, and of course they increase code size.)