Updated Frequently asked questions (markdown)

Frequently-asked-questions.md

@@ -22,3 +22,7 @@ Just add a rule at the end of your handlers list that matches everything:
     (r'.*', My404Handler)
 
 In `My404Handler`, use `self.set_status(404)` and then render a page as usual.  For non-404 errors, you can override `write_error` in your handler class.
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+## Why don't tornado.escape.json_encode and json_decode pass unknown keyword arguments to the underlying implementation?  OR  Why don't json_encode and json_decode use [some faster json library] when available?
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+These two common requests are mutually exclusive - one ties json_encode more closely to a specific implementation, and the other requires the underlying implementation be swappable.  In both cases I feel like the best approach is to leave tornado.escape.json_encode as a lowest-common-denominator json implementation that is available on all platforms where tornado runs. If you want more features that are provided by a specific json library, you should probably just import and use that library directly instead of using the tornado.escape version.