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encoding: avoid quadratic time complexity when json-encoding non-UTF8 strings

Apparently the code uses "+=" with a bytes object, which is linear-time, so the
whole encoding is quadratic-time. This patch makes us use a bytearray object,
instead, which has a(n amortized-)constant-time append operation.

The encoding is still not particularly fast, but at least a 10MB file
takes tens of seconds, not many hours to encode.

#!/bin/rc
# 9mail - Mercurial email wrapper for upas/marshal

fn usage {
	echo >[1=2] usage: mercurial/9mail -f from to [cc]
	exit usage
}

from=()
cc=()
to=()

switch($1){
case -f
	from=$2
case *
	usage
}

to=($3)
if(~ $#* 4)
	cc=(-C $4)

upasname=$from
upas/marshal $cc $to