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Re:Faster and simpler with the command line: deep-comparing ... by dith3r on Thursday December 06, 2018 @12:02PM (#18619763)
Python is fast at parsing JSON, Go had hard time to match parsing speed of it. Additionally you have PyPy to help.
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Re:Faster and simpler with the command line: deep-comparing ... by mattbillenstein on Thursday December 06, 2018 @12:20PM (#18620004)
Nod. https://gist.github.com/mattbillenstein/34cf2907390102ffbabd...
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Re:Faster and simpler with the command line: deep-comparing ... by Filligree on Friday December 07, 2018 @09:59AM (#18628161)
Python is fast at doing anything that doesn't involve running Python.

That's an important caveat. Python's C JSON parser library is super-fast, but if you want to use the data for anything but a simple equality check afterwards, it'll be slow as molasses.

Or you'll write a C extension for it...

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