Feature request

When a .json module is sufficiently large, webpack leverages JSON.parse to enhance performance.

But JSON.parse is not faster in all cases (see the motivation below).

What is the expected behavior?

A new option to allow generate plain object literal instead of JSON.parse for .json modules.

What is motivation or use case for adding/changing the behavior?

In Lynx, we are using compiled bytecodes on the main-thread. So using object literal is faster and smaller than JSON.parse.

How should this be implemented in your opinion?

It would be great if an option like module.generator.json.avoidJSONParse could be added to avoid generating JSON.parse

Are you willing to work on this yourself?
yes