[Python-Dev] Status of json (simplejson) in cpython

[Matt Billenstein]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 01:30:13PM +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:41:03 +0000
> Matt Billenstein <matt at vazor.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Slightly less crude benchmark showing simplejson is quite a bit faster:
> > 
> > http://pastebin.com/g1WqUPwm
> > 
> > 250ms vs 5.5s encoding and decoding an 11KB json object 1000 times...
> 
> This doesn't have much value if you don't say which version of Python
> you ran json with. You should use 3.2, otherwise you might miss some
> optimizations.

Yes, that was 2.6.5 -- 3.2 native json is comparable to simplejson here taking
about 330ms...

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