I believe trunk now utilizes the C JSON parser for some nice speed improvements and thought this might be worth sharing.
Over on the JSON spec list two devs were sharing attempts at writing the fastest JSON parsers in C and C++ respectively. UltraJSON (C) claims to have the fastest parsing speed at the moment: https://github.com/esnme/ultrajson RapidJSON (C++) is attempting to be the fastest as well: http://code.google.com/p/rapidjson/ I thought it interesting enough to share these announcements; I realize there is much more needed from a JSON parser than just sheer speed. -R