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

[Michael Foord]

On 17/04/2011 17:05, Michael Foord wrote:
> On 17/04/2011 00:16, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>> On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:48:45 +0100
>> Michael Foord<fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>  wrote:
>>
>>> On 16/04/2011 22:28, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
>>>> Am 16.04.2011 21:13, schrieb Vinay Sajip:
>>>>> Martin v. Löwis<martin<at>   v.loewis.de>   writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Does it actually need improvement?
>>>>> I can't actually say, but I assume it keeps changing for the 
>>>>> better - albeit
>>>>> slowly. I wasn't thinking of specific improvements, just the idea 
>>>>> of continuous
>>>>> improvement in general...
>>>> Hmm. I cannot believe in the notion of "continuous improvement"; I'd
>>>> guess that it is rather "continuous change".
>>>>
>>>> I can see three possible areas of improvment:
>>>> 1. Bugs: if there are any, they should clearly be fixed. However, JSON
>>>>      is a simple format, so the implementation should be able to 
>>>> converge
>>>>      to something fairly correct quickly.
>>>> 2. Performance: there is always room for performance improvements.
>>>>      However, I strongly recommend to not bother unless a severe
>>>>      bottleneck can be demonstrated.
>>> Well, there was a 5x speedup demonstrated comparing simplejson to the
>>> standard library json module.
>> No.
>>
> Yes.

Well, maybe not. :-)

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