bug#8890: 23.3; message writing slows emacs

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> But I wonder whether a simpler, more general function would be
> possible.  If we're outputting stuff that's not a percentage,
> progress-reporter doesn't help much.

This has basically been implemented as `with-delayed-message' in Emacs
29, so I'm therefore closing this bug report.  (Although we haven't
changed some of the more message-happy things in Emacs to use the macro,
but we should.)

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