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Comment by fastball

5 years ago

Why in the world would you roll your own JSON parser?

For reference, I just ran a 10MB file through the JSON parser I use in Python and it finished in 0.047s (vs 190s)

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lordnacho  5 years ago

I wonder if there's some corporate policy against using external libs. You'd think most of them would have solved this.

rapsey  5 years ago

Python has a package manager and a rich standard library.

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