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29.0.50; Enabling pp-use-max-width dramatically slows down formatting of large sexps like org-persist--index

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>
Cc: 58687 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, m.eliachevitch <at> posteo.de
Subject: bug#58687: 29.0.50; Enabling pp-use-max-width dramatically slows down formatting of large sexps like org-persist--index
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 18:39:35 +0200

> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>
> Cc: m.eliachevitch <at> posteo.de, 58687 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 16:19:37 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >        40041  85%            - pp
> >        40041  85%             - pp-to-string
> >        40041  85%              - pp-emacs-lisp-code
> >        40028  85%               - pp--insert-lisp
> >        40028  85%                - pp--format-list
> >        40028  85%                 - pp--insert
> >        38710  82%                  - pp--insert-lisp
> >        38710  82%                   - pp--format-list
> 
> So, the current `pp' implementation is re-parsing from bob for every
> nested list inside sexp.

Not "the current 'pp'", but the implementation for this optional
behavior.

> This is quadratic scaling, and, as the repro demonstrates, the time
> goes up very quickly. Is the new option usable at all in practice?

Maybe only for small code fragments.

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