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

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Well, there was a 5x speedup demonstrated comparing simplejson to the
> standard library json module.

Can you kindly point to that demonstration?

> That sound like *very* worth pursuing (and
> crazy not to pursue). I've had json serialisation be the bottleneck in
> web applications generating several megabytes of json for some requests.

Hmm. I'd claim that the web application that needs to generate several
megabytes of json for something should be redesigned. I also wonder
whether the bottleneck was the *generation*, the transmission, or
the processing of the data on the receiving end.

Regards,
Martin