JSON is really useful as a portable, human-readable format that is also (relatively) easily machine-readable. Under the hood, doesn't Suricata transform the JS

JSON is really useful as a portable, human-readable format that is also (relatively) easily machine-readable. Under the hood, doesn't Suricata transform the JSON config to an efficient binary representation though? (I've never used Suricata, and haven't used Snort or seen the code for ~15 years, but it seems the obvious thing to do)