Thread:Talk:Requests for comment/Localisation format/Motivations/reply (2)

Tangentially-relevant data: the last time I was asked to benchmark PHP-arrays verses JSON-objects in terms of loading performance (player data fixtures for testing a game server), JSON came out significantly faster, because it's a more limited format - a JSON object is certainly going to just be a data object; an included PHP file could be a class, a load of functions, anything.