Sujeet Akula

Yes, specifically, support for lists/enumerations etc. would be very good.

Seems like ``ref_count`` should be defined as an ``int`` not an ``unsigned int`` in ``struct signal_type_base`` as we actually do ``assert(instance->ref_count > 0);``. That's a better way to ensure that...

FWIW, parsing large amounts of Twitter data like [this](https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/tweets) and [this](https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/users) is about 2x slower than stdlib json in CPython.

Here is an example. Fetch a JSON-formatted array of 100k Twitter user objects. (In this case, it's just my own twitter user object repeated 100k times.): `wget https://freeboson.org/100k_twitter_users.json.bz2 -O- |...

@TotalVerb it's negligible. The compilation time is amortized and the Julia/Python ratio of ~2 is consistent with yet larger arrays.