SimpleJson is slow .... is there any C Compiled version ?

[Dan Stromberg]

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:49:20 -0700, Richard Levasseur wrote:

> On Jul 25, 5:52 pm, Matt Nordhoff <mnordh... at mattnordhoff.com> wrote:
>> Also, simplejson and python-cjson might not be entirely compatible:
>> there's one character that one escapes and the other doesn't, or
>> something. --
> 
> They also have different interface.  simplejson uses load/loads/dump/
> dumps, whereas cjson using encode/decode (its pretty simple to
> monkeypatch cjson with some lambda's so it has the same interface,
> though).
> 
> Yeah, its frustrating that there are so many json encoders for python. 
> Its a bit disappointing simplejson is going into the stdlib; i hope they
> rewrite it in C?

C's great for performance, but if you want something featureful and 
reliable, you're probably better off in something else - including but 
not limited to python, optionally with psyco.

I wish the pypy people would package up their stuff into a form that you 
can just ./configure && make && make install and then #! to - I believe 
it'd grow/mature faster than it is if they did (and they may have, but 
last time I looked it didn't appear so).  But once they do, that might be 
a convenient way of getting better performance.