[Haskell-cafe] Slow Text.JSON parser

[Sjoerd Visscher]

JSON is a UNICODE format, like any modern format is today. ByteStrings  
are not going to work.

If everybody starts yelling "ByteString" every time String performance  
is an issue, I don't see how Haskell is ever going to be a "real world  
programming language".

On Jan 13, 2009, at 4:00 PM, Don Stewart wrote:

> ketil:
>> "Levi Greenspan" <greenspan.levi at googlemail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Now I wonder why Text.JSON is so slow in comparison and what can be
>>> done about it. Any ideas? Or is the test case invalid?
>>
>> I haven't used JSON, but at first glance, I'd blame String IO.  Can't
>> you decode from ByteString?
>>
>
> Text.JSON was never optimised for performance. It was designed for  
> small
> JSON objects. For things above 1M I'd suggest using Data.Binary (or a
> quick JSON encoding over bytestrings). Shouldn't be too hard to  
> prepare.
>
> -- Don
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Sjoerd Visscher
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