[erlang-questions] fast JSON parser in C

[Jonathan Gray]

Chris,

Considering your primary goal is speed, you definitely don't want to use my
implementation.

I use an intermediate translation into a custom typed JSON tree.  It's a
poor approach when you need it to be as fast as possible.  It's done this
way for simplicity reasons as the JSON -> tree (and vice versa) already
existed when we wanted to then go to Erlang/ETERM.  If a direct parser
existed I'd certainly use it.

I'm still exploring the issues with segfaulting during decoding.  It's been
suggested to me to use ei rather than erl_interface, but it's quite a bit
more involved.  An ideal JSON -> Erl parser would certainly be using ei
directly, so I'd dig around there for how you can build/decode Erlang from
within C.

http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/ei.html

Jonathan

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[mailto:erlang-questions-bounces@REDACTED] On Behalf Of Chris Anderson
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To: Jonathan Gray
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Subject: Re: [erlang-questions] fast JSON parser in C

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Jonathan Gray <jlist@REDACTED> wrote:
> Chris,
>
> I'm currently using something just as you are describing.  I have
> erl_to_json() and json_to_erl() functions in C which convert ETERM -> JSON
> and JSON -> ETERM.  Both are recursive C functions which make use of
> erl_eterm from erl_interface.

Awesome to hear that you are building this already. Are you interested
in open sourcing it? My goal is to build a faster JSON parser for
CouchDB. I don't mind doing the work, but if you already have
something happening, why duplicate work?

Thanks for the technical feedback. I'll definitely take a look at the
marshaling stuff, but I'd rather look at your json stuff. :)

Chris


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