Re: Speedup of functions to en/decode UTF-8 text

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 23.11.2019 11:37, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I've made some changes in the functions that encode and decode UTF-8
> text in an optimized fashion.  This is expected to speed up JSON
> handling.  Some preliminary benchmarking of the decoding function
> indicates speed improvements starting at modest 30-40%, and sometimes
> much higher -- tenfold or more.  I'm not sure how this will fare in
> the real-life handling of JSON objects

This is great. But were those 30-40% improvements in tests with strings 
or JSON decoding?

I tested two old examples, and the difference is <10% (like 0.78s down 
to 0.73s in the best case). Which is still welcome, of course.