[Python-Dev] Status of json (simplejson) in cpython

[Michael Foord]

On 17/04/2011 00:16, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:48:45 +0100
> Michael Foord<fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>  wrote:
>
>> On 16/04/2011 22:28, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
>>> Am 16.04.2011 21:13, schrieb Vinay Sajip:
>>>> Martin v. Löwis<martin<at>   v.loewis.de>   writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Does it actually need improvement?
>>>> I can't actually say, but I assume it keeps changing for the better - albeit
>>>> slowly. I wasn't thinking of specific improvements, just the idea of continuous
>>>> improvement in general...
>>> Hmm. I cannot believe in the notion of "continuous improvement"; I'd
>>> guess that it is rather "continuous change".
>>>
>>> I can see three possible areas of improvment:
>>> 1. Bugs: if there are any, they should clearly be fixed. However, JSON
>>>      is a simple format, so the implementation should be able to converge
>>>      to something fairly correct quickly.
>>> 2. Performance: there is always room for performance improvements.
>>>      However, I strongly recommend to not bother unless a severe
>>>      bottleneck can be demonstrated.
>> Well, there was a 5x speedup demonstrated comparing simplejson to the
>> standard library json module.
> No.
>
Yes.

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