[Python-Dev] Dropping bytes "support" in json

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> I'm personally leaning slightly towards strings, putting the burden on
> bytes-users of json to explicitly use the appropriate encoding, even in
> cases where it *must* be utf8.  On the other hand, I'm too lazy to dig
> back through this large thread, but I seem to recall a suggestion that
> using bytes would be significantly faster. 

Not sure whether it would be *significantly* faster, but yes, Bob wrote
an accelerator for parsing out of a byte string to make it really fast;
IIRC, he claims that it is faster than pickling.

Regards,
Martin