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		easytiger on Oct 22, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fastest JSON parser in the world is a D project? If it was implemented in c++ using identical algorithms it would be no slower.

fauigerzigerk on Oct 22, 2015 [–]

That's hard to know. It's always possible that one compiler generates faster code than another one for the same algorithm.

I wouldn't be surprised if most of the speed difference was down to correctness checks though.

easytiger on Oct 22, 2015 | [–]

There are full threads on why this impl is faster. It's cheating

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