Re: String encoding in json.c

[Dmitry Gutov]

Hi Eli,

On 12/23/17 4:43 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> The main purpose of Emacs is to be an efficient editor, so if we care
> about the slow-down of code conversions, we should first and foremost
> speed up reading and writing files.  JSON conversion, with all due
> respect to them, are not the main business for us, and I'm not even
> sure JSON objects will frequently be as large as files our users visit
> all the time.

FWIW, a significant use case for json.el is encoding a structure 
containing the whole contents of the current buffer as one of the values 
(several protocols for external code completion tools use this).