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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.

#require symlink

https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/1438

  $ hg init repo
  $ cd repo

  $ ln -s foo link
  $ hg add link
  $ hg ci -mbad link
  $ hg rm link
  $ hg ci -mok
  $ hg diff -g -r 0:1 > bad.patch

  $ hg up 0
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ hg import --no-commit bad.patch
  applying bad.patch

  $ hg status
  R link
  ? bad.patch