A pprint dispatch table is a CONS of a SYMBOL *PRINT-PPRINT-DISPATCH* and an association list which maps types into priorities and print functions. Their use is strongly discouraged because of the performance issues: when *PRINT-PPRINT-DISPATCH* is non-trivial and *PRINT-PRETTY* is non-NIL, printing of every object requires a lookup in the table, which entails many calls to TYPEP (which cannot be made fast enough).