Re: JSON/YAML/TOML/etc. parsing performance

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Sun, 17 Sep 2017 20:27:02 +0000 Philipp Stephani <address@hidden> wrote: 

PS> Sure, I've made a quick overview based on
PS> https://github.com/miloyip/nativejson-benchmark. I've only used the
PS> libraries that are written in C and have been tested in that benchmark;
PS> it's still quite a few. I've checked the conformance and speed metrics from
PS> the benchmark as well as number of GitHub stars (as proxy for popularity)
PS> and number of commit in the last month (as proxy for development activity):
PS> Here are the results:
PS> 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTqKxqo47s67L3EJ9AWvZclNuT2xbd9rgoRuJ_UYbXgnV171owr8h2mksHjrjNGADDR3DVTWQvUMBpe/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true
PS> Note that some of the libraries (jsmn, ujson4c) don't appear to support
PS> serialization at all; I'd suggest to avoid them, because we'd then need to
PS> wrap another library for serialization. Also, even though JSMN advertises
PS> itself as "world's fastest JSON parser", it's actually the slowest of the
PS> libraries in the survey. json-c appears to be reasonably conformant and
PS> fast for both parsing and serialization, and has by far the largest
PS> development activity.

Hi Philipp,

thanks for doing all that work!

I'd suggest posting the survey results here directly.

Also maybe consider the jq built-in JSON parser, which could be a good
fit (it's usable as a library IIRC). The rest of the libraries look good
and I hope we make a choice soon. I don't have a favorite.

Thanks
Ted