[Web-SIG] simplejson 2.0.0 released, much faster.

[Arnar Birgisson]

Hi Bob,

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 20:16, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
> Even without the C speedups, it's several times faster. With the C
> speedups, it's WAY faster. I highly recommend that everyone update
> their frameworks to use the latest code.

Excellent stuff!

> There aren't really any API breaking changes, but when decoding a str
> input it will return str objects instead of unicode if the str is all
> ASCII with no escaped characters. I'm not aware of any scenario other
> than doctests where this could be a problem.

Is it configurable to make it always decode to unicode? Did you make
this change for performance?

cheers,
Arnar