json parsing performance

[Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 7 April 2015 at 00:36:30 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
> On Monday, 6 April 2015 at 21:09:32 UTC, 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.
>
> Which improvements to algebraic?

Sönke describes them here: 
http://forum.dlang.org/post/lt5s76$is$1@digitalmars.com