Warnings issued when fast-alists are used inefficiently.

Obtaining hash-table performance from hons-get requires one to follow a certain discipline. If this discipline is violated, you may see a "slow alist warning". This warning means that the alist you are extending or accessing does not have a valid hash table associated with it, and hence any accesses must be carried out with hons-assoc-equal instead of gethash.

You can control whether or not you get a warning and, if so, whether or not a break (an error from which you can continue) ensues. For instance:

 (set-slow-alist-action :warning)  ; warn on slow access (default)
 (set-slow-alist-action :break)    ; warn and also call break$
 (set-slow-alist-action nil)       ; do not warn or break

The above forms expand to table events, so they can be embedded in encapsulates and books, wrapped in local, and so on.