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25.0.50; json-encode-string is too slow for large strings

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Message #133 received at 20154 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz <at> lifelogs.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 20154 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20154: 25.0.50;
 json-encode-string is too slow for large strings
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 18:20:32 -0400

On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 00:02:51 +0200 Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru> wrote: 

DG> Maybe implementing `json-encode-string` itself in C isn't strictly
DG> necessary, or even particularly advantageous.

Absolutely, implementing it ourselves is dumb. Because it's been *done
already* many times, in libjson in particular.

DG> How about trying to optimize `replace-match' or
DG> `replace-regexp-in-string' (which are the main two approaches we can
DG> use to implement `json-encode-string') for the case of large input?

I think all the time and effort spent on that would be better spent on
the FFI work, which would also enable libyaml integration and many other
improvements.

Ted

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