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Re:Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (2018) by userbinator on Sunday August 18, 2019 @12:10AM (#20728185)
Just matching that regex alone is going to take a pretty large number of instructions (at least dozens.) That's not "simple" by any measure.
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Re:Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (2018) by pnx on Sunday August 18, 2019 @12:18AM (#20728209)
Probably tens of thousands.

And it will still be a faster operation than fetching the next json file from disk by an order of magnitude, or two.

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