[erlang-questions] fast JSON parser in C

[Chris Anderson]

Richard,

Thanks for taking up the charge on this JSON stuff. I agree that
interface, rather than speed, is what we should be thinking about now.
We can always speed it up later.

I posted to the couchdb-dev mailing list with a summary of some of the
format opinions I'd found in various discussions. This might be
helpful for the EEP.

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-couchdb-dev/200807.mbox/%3ce282921e0807200924k256685f6r4b5651219f16d7b5@mail.gmail.com%3e

Chris


On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@REDACTED> wrote:
> On 25 Jul 2008, at 10:56 am, Bob Ippolito wrote:
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>> I'd be curious to know if leex/yecc can do any better than mochijson2
>> (which is written by hand), especially considering that it uses
>> binaries instead of strings.
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>> http://code.google.com/p/mochiweb/source/browse/trunk/src/mochijson2.erl
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> I've printed that to study over the weekend.
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> Thing is, it doesn't have to be *better*.  It could even *be*
> the mochijson2 code.  Part of what Joe was getting at, I think,
> is that it would be nice if JSON support were a standard part
> of Erlang/OTP in *some* fashion.  That way everyone who wants
> to use JSON builds (for export) and sees (from import) the same
> kind of Erlang data.
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> From a quick glance at the that code, I believe that a BIF *could*
> be usefully faster.  Whether it is worth putting the effort into it
> is another matter.  There are also some interface issues; I would
> value your comments on my EEP.
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> If stupidity were a crime, who'd 'scape hanging?
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