The new Go JSON API: twice as fast, or 1.5x slower?
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JSON is a standard format for data interchange. It is effectively a tiny subset of JavaScript made of objects and arrays. It looks as follows {"key":1, "text":[1.0,2.0]}. Many programming languages include a JSON library in their standard libraries: C#, Go, Java (soon), Python, JavaScript, etc. The Go implementation is convenient, but not especially fast. Go … Continue reading The new Go JSON API: twice as fast, or 1.5x slower?
  • lobsters__je@crustaceanson.theshelf.top
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    1 month ago

    I’ve always avoided percentages when reporting relative performance. It never occurred to me that it is also possible to cause confusion by reporting “nX faster than” and “1/m X slower than”, rather than “mX as fast as”.

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    • lobsters__fanf@crustaceanson.theshelf.topM
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      7 days ago

      Yeah, I think performance comparisons are much clearer when written as a multiplier of the run time or operation rate (and you explicitly say which). Percentages and “faster”/“slower” are too ambiguous.

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