Show HN: A fast JSON library for Go

Re:Show HN: A fast JSON library for Go by mkarlsch on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @12:28PM (#26080190)

That looks great, especially some of the unique optimisations. I gave it a nonscientific test run with a set of 1k different 2-4kb JSON encoded messages that we saw in our day to day traffic using the default Go benchmark library. Compared to easyjson (generated parser) goccy/go-json is unfortunately 20-25% slower and allocated four times the number of bytes.

Any chance that you will implement code generation like easyjson?

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Re:Show HN: A fast JSON library for Go by jdknezek on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @02:12PM (#26081366)

Are you unmarshaling to interface{}? Have you tried commenting out the easyjson json.Un/Marshaler implementations? By default they wrap the easyjson code and add reflection overhead.

I had the same results when testing with a project that is already using easyjson, but after commenting out easyjson's json.Un/Marshaler impls I am seeing much improved performance using goccy/go-json.

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Re:Show HN: A fast JSON library for Go by mkarlsch on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @03:54PM (#26082256)

Indeed. Thanks for the hint! While the allocations are still 2.5x, not by accident calling into easyjson makes goccy/go-json perform faster than easyjson with generated code by ~10%. That is some impressive result.

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Re:Show HN: A fast JSON library for Go by goccy on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:16PM (#26085694)

Thank you for your report. It's an interesting result. If you have code that can be reproduced, I will try to optimize it to be faster than easyjson.

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