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Unhelpful text in C-h v for variables with a lambda form as value

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Message #17 received at 66750 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>, Andrea Corallo <acorallo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 66750 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: bug#66750: Unhelpful text in C-h v for variables with a lambda
 form as value
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 08:04:00 -0700

Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de> writes:

> Currently feature/named-lambdas is mostly working, not fully working.
> Probably the most pressing of these deficiencies is that native compiled
> lambda functions don't yet get their defining symbol set.
>
> There have been substantial amendments compared with the master branch,
> and it has not been tested much by anybody but me.
>
> Assuming it can be brought to a fully working state, there would be an
> extra symbol in each function definition which would make Emacs
> marginally bigger.

Does it have any performance implications?

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