On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 16:27:08 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
Oh absolutely. My issue with the benchmark is just that it claims to be a JSON parser benchmark but the bulk of CPU time is actually spent parsing floats.
Well, most of such language-comparison benchmarks are just for fun/marketing. In the real world big JSON files would be compressed and most likely retrieved over a network connection (like a blob from a database). Pull-parsing of mmap'ed memory is a rather unusual scenario for JSON.