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

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:09:17 +0100
Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
> On 17/04/2011 07:28, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> >> Well, there was a 5x speedup demonstrated comparing simplejson to the
> >> standard library json module.
> > Can you kindly point to that demonstration?
> >
> Hmm... according to a later email in this thread it is 350ms vs 250ms 
> for an 11kb sample. That's a nice speedup but not a 5x one.

That speedup is actually because of a slowdown in py3k, which should be
solved with http://bugs.python.org/issue11856

Regards

Antoine.