You might want to consider using a streaming JSON parser.

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Kei Son <hey.calmd...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a huge JSON file, right, it's 78MB.
> When I just require it from node-cli it takes 450MB memory footprint. I
> can understand that is bloated 6x times because the JSON file is just a
> string  in the storage, but it needs spaces for indexing, making some
> padding, optimization, linking and whatever else when it comes on memory.
>
> But the other hand, when I add some strings like "module.exports=" at the
> top of the JSON file and require it as a normal js file, it takes only
> 200MB. I thought requiring as JSON would be faster and smaller than as JS.
> Because there are no seeking time for code-optimization and no extra
> process at the Node.js side.
>
> What's different between two and why?
>
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