Re: A question about read syntax and compiled backreferences

[Miles Bader]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> BTW, maybe it would be worth it to try and investigate why it gets so much
> slower: we may be able to fix the slowdown rather than circumvent it.

I think for each lisp object printed, it does a linear search on a list
of all lisp objects previously printed (within the same "top-level"
print).

It would presumably help a lot to use an eq hash table instead.

-miles

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