It’s been a few weeks since I last wrote about the aeson library for working with JSON in Haskell, but this isn’t because I’ve been idle. In fact, just tonight I put out a new release. Where the previous releases focused on parsing performance, this one focuses on encoding performance.
And the performance news is good: on real-world data, I’ve improved encoding performance by about a factor of 4. Why don’t we let the graphs do the talking.
Enjoy!
Thanks for the amazing work.
Unfortunately, there seems to be a bug in the new version. If I enter “encode $ Number 200” the result is “0D”, where the old version correctly returned “200”.
Holger, oops! You’re right. I swapped a “quot” and a “rem” by accident. I’ve released 0.3.2.1 and added a QuickCheck test suite, so this shouldn’t happen again 🙂
Thats a very nice improvement. As you’re using the blaze-builder library, I had a go at converting your string encoding to use the ‘Write’ construction:
https://github.com/meiersi/aeson/commit/328777ef0ad1e1e9d7a730bd16753384db5f5ec0
Together with a function for efficiently serializing Text values using the internals of your Fusion framework, which I just exported in a local dev version
https://github.com/meiersi/aeson/commit/1bcd9f7605cf61abe2faf7ff53b1f8aa91fd3f48
this results in another 50% speedup on your newly released aeson-0.3.2.0 library:
https://gist.github.com/881389
The current code is not as nice as it could be, as it defines functions that were better provided by the ‘text’ or ‘blaze-builder’ libraries. Especially, for the second patch, I’m not sure, if it should be included in aeson right now. The integration of the ‘blaze-builder’ work into ‘bytestring’ will solve these issues. However, progress is steady but not all too fast on that side.
Simon, those performance improvements look great!
I think that the fromWriteText function would be best in blaze-builder, as I can’t add it to text due to the dependency it would add on a non-platform library.
Let me know when you release a new blaze-builder with that addition, as the added performance would be fabulous to have. What version of GHC are you benchmarking with, by the way?
Hi Bryan,
I’m benchmarking on a Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz using GHC 7.0.2.
The problem with the ‘fromWriteText’ function is that it depends on the hidden ‘Text.Fusion’ module. Hence, I first need an updated version of the ‘text’ library. Once, you expose this module, I’ll add it to blaze-builder.
The ‘hex’ functions will have to wait with respect to blaze-builder. The plan is to incorporate them only in the new ‘bytestring’ library. Otherwise, my forces are getting spread too thin.
BTW: Could you send me a mail when you respond? I was hoping your blogging system would do that automatically, but it is not.
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know about the affirmative action because BO himself admitted it. At this point all we know is BO was BORN, unfortunately. This story is as good as anything else we have currently.You've got to keep up with the news to have any credibility here…
Roger,I agree SUSY is a saturated subject in collaborations, but given 30 years of theoretical propaganda it is difficult not to pursue this to the point of exhaustion. I mean, I am of course afraid sometimes on trigger bias based on SUSY models but for the time being it’ s difficult not to do this. On the theory side that is a different story, but for experiments I think they are doing what they should – massacring SUSY without mercy.
That’s an inventive answer to an interesting question
Wouldn’t have been cheaper to buy a model off of ebay? I know making one was a fun experience and all but I have a limited amount of money.