bug#31138: Native json slower than json.el

[Andy Moreton]

On Tue 23 Apr 2019, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 15:50:57 +0100
>> 
>> > What applications do we have where en/decoding strings has critical
>> > effect on performance?
>> 
>> One possible candidate is the LSP packages from ELPA/MELPA (eglot,
>> lsp-mode, etc) which use JSON-RPC to communicate with the external
>> language servers. Their interactive performance may be sensitive to JSON
>> overheads.
>> 
>> I don't yet use these tools, so perhaps someone who does can indicate if
>> faster JSON handling is important for these tools.
>
> JSON performance already got sped up: that's what this bug report and
> the associated commits were all about.  I was asking which other
> applications that do NOT use JSON might have string conversion a
> bottleneck.

Ah - my bad.

> Or did I misunderstand what you were saying?

No, I did not read enough context.

    AndyM