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

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Sat, 16 Sep 2017 20:02:17 -0400 Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote: 

> Ted wrote:
>> I wanted to ask if there's any chance of improving the parsing
>> performance of JSON, YAML, TOML, and similar data formats. It's pretty
>> poor today.

RS> Can you design a primitive general enough to speed up parsing of all those
RS> formats?  That would make it feasible to handle them all without
RS> too much work.

I don't think that's easy. They are pretty different. Maybe TOML and INI
parsing can be unified, but that's about it.

I think the best approach is to choose one of the libraries Philipp
suggested but I don't have a favorite.

Thanks
Ted