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rapsey on Feb 21, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Simdjson – Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second

And for the amount of messages that are being sent, the speed difference is irrelevant.

This is the same conclusion sqlite developers came to. They tested turning JSON column types to binary and the speed difference was not large enough to warrant maintaining that code so they kept the data in JSON.

IshKebab on Feb 21, 2019 [–]

If the speed different is irrelevant, why are they struggling with it?

rapsey on Feb 21, 2019 | [–]

Because most implementations are reasonably efficient. Swift default one is apparently not.

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