New issue 2077: json.loads() for unicode is 5x slower than bytes https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/issues/2077/jsonloads-for-unicode-is-5x-slower-than Naoki INADA: PyPy version: 2.6.0-osx64 (fcdb94156515, May 26 2015, 12:34:34) Benchmark: https://gist.github.com/methane/b5b1dbe181e06f0f6365