[m-dev.] for review: speeding up the browser

[Fergus Henderson]

On 23-Feb-1999, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> Avoid a two-three second delay in the printing of (the top levels of) large
> data structures such as module_infos in the debugger.
> 
> browser/browse.m:
> 	Instead of computing the exact size of the term when we check whether
> 	we can print it in full, compute the size only up to the maximum,
> 	and skip the rest. This lets us avoid traversing 99+% of typical
> 	module_infos.

That one looks fine.

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