Suhasini Peddada wrote: > Hello All, > > Here are the AI's from today's inception review of PSARC 2009/471. > Please let me know, in case any corrections/modifications are required: > > 1) Investigate whether JSON is better than XML for the manifest.
Some things to be aware of with JSON: * doesn't support comments * only supports Unicode; this means no Big5, etc. encoding (unless there's a Unicode representation of that) * is not a container format; that means that you cannot put mutiple JSON serializations (documents) in a single file Some things about the Python simplejson module (likely the best implementation available for Python): * significantly worse performance on SPARC vs. x86 for very large data structures with a depth of more than three or four levels; this of course can probably be fixed * don't know if it supports beyond UTF-8 * not native to Python 2.4, although we ship the simplejson module for it; python versions 2.6 and newer include it as part of the core under the name 'json' Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
