bug#56255: 28.1.50; sxhash-equal does not change when object is modified

[Ihor Radchenko]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This is exactly the problem at hand. I was hoping to find a fast way to
>> detect if a large deeply nested object is changed. If not, do not print
>> that object for the purpose of saving it to disk cache. Printing can
>> take up to 2-3 seconds in some cases.
>
> I think you basically have to restructure the code to add a guard to
> whatever's updating the structure to see whether it's "dirty" or not.

This is only possible when I have access to the code making changes to
the object.

The original idea was to detect changed objects in most generic way, as
a part of persistent storage library. Oh well.

Best,
Ihor