I'm out of town this week for a conference (ICFP/CUFP in Victoria) and my hotel's connection has been bad enough such that I can't get any Real Work done so I've managed to hammer on the json library's decoding quite a bit instead. I just released simplejson 1.9.3 which improves decoding performance by about 2x and I've got some more changes along the way in trunk for 1.9.4 that will increase it even further (over 3x my original 1.9.2 benchmark perf). How much time do I have left to get this into Python 2.6?

FWIW the changes are all on the Python side, no C code has been harmed (yet). The test suite still passes of course. Added bonus is that simplejson trunk only uses the public and documented re interface, no more sre scanner stuff.

-bob

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