json parsing performance

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/6/15 2:09 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
> On Monday, 6 April 2015 at 20:20:06 UTC, Kingsley wrote:
>> I have read that std.json is pretty slow compared to other languages
>> json parsers and I'm about to do a whole stack of json parsing and was
>> wondering if anyone has got any benchmarks to indicate what "slow"
>> means compared to other languages - particularly java, ruby, python?
>>
>> I want to know whether to roll up the sleeves and write my own json
>> parser focused on performance or if slow just means a few ms slower -
>> which I could live with.
>
> We actually have a JSON parser meant to replace std.json that should be
> very high performance. You can try it out now using dub:
>
> http://code.dlang.org/packages/std_data_json
>
> I used it recently though I didn't do any performance testing. The
> improvements to Algebraic would help make it more pleasant to use.

Sönke, what's the status of this? -- Andrei