alt Hacker NewsNot even companies. I've seen this with colleagues. They wanted JSON parsing in a moderately embedded device. No thank you. Parse it elsewhere, give me the binary result
Not even companies. I've seen this with colleagues. They wanted JSON parsing in a moderately embedded device. No thank you. Parse it elsewhere, give me the binary result
Meh, it's not ideal but it's not that bad either.
I'm working on an embedded system with a MCU and I've benchmarked JSON serialization at over 500 KiB/s (through a HTTP GET request) using my own library. Deserialization is slower, but that's partly because I have super-linear algorithms downstream of the parsing.
CBOR is much nicer and faster to work with (smaller documents, definite length strings directly consumable) and I do support it in my library, but I derive most of my performance gains by ditching DOM-style APIs and using stream processing instead. Allocating nodes and chasing pointers all over the heap sucks for performance, especially for large documents, regardless of the format (and that's assuming it even fits within available RAM).