bug#36566: 27.0.50; debug is sometimes horribly slow

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Stepping through code should be fast, and we don't really care
>> that much about the prettiness of the values were displaying then.
>
> I think we do care to see closures printed in a human-understandable
> way, for example.
>
> And with a `char-length` constraint the output should always be fast.

Well, OK.  cl-prin1 could have its own Lisp variable for this, I
guess -- cl-print-char-length.

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