Fastest JSON parser in the world is a D project

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 10/17/15 6:43 PM, Sean Kelly wrote:
> If this is the benchmark I'm remembering, the bulk of the time is spent
> parsing the floating point numbers. So it isn't a test of JSON parsing
> in general so much as the speed of scanf.

In many cases the use of scanf can be replaced with drastically faster 
methods, as I discuss in my talks on optimization (including Brasov 
recently). I hope they'll release the videos soon. -- Andrei