From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: JSON/YAML/TOML/etc. parsing performance Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 20:02:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87poaqhc63.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1505606605 25782 195.159.176.226 (17 Sep 2017 00:03:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 00:03:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 17 02:03:20 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dtN3Q-0006Wx-Bj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Sep 2017 02:03:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58907 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dtN3X-0003hX-ML for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Sep 2017 20:03:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42391) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dtN2U-0003gM-0V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Sep 2017 20:02:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dtN2T-0000ZD-65 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Sep 2017 20:02:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55332) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dtN2Q-0000Ta-1n; Sat, 16 Sep 2017 20:02:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dtN2P-0008Ec-Jg; Sat, 16 Sep 2017 20:02:17 -0400 In-reply-to: <87poaqhc63.fsf@lifelogs.com> (message from Ted Zlatanov on Sat, 16 Sep 2017 11:54:12 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:218381 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I wanted to ask if there's any chance of improving the parsing > performance of JSON, YAML, TOML, and similar data formats. It's pretty > poor today. Can you design a primitive general enough to speed up parsing of all those formats? That would make it feasible to handle them all without too much work. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.