From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-02-02T01:12:54+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Parsing JSON (#155)

On Feb 1, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Eric Mahurin wrote:

> On Feb 1, 2008 7:55 AM, Ruby Quiz <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
>
>> In honor of that, this week's Ruby Quiz is to write a parser for  
>> JSON.
>>
>> JSON turns out to turns out to be a great little example for writing
>> parsers for
>> two reasons.  First, it's pretty easy stuff.  You can hand-roll a  
>> JSON
>> parser in
>> under 100 lines of Ruby.  The second advantage is that the data  
>> format is
>> wonderfully documented:
>>
>>       http://json.org/
>>
>
> I definitely want to find time to do this one.  What would be nice  
> to have
> is performance benchmark to compare parsers.  Maybe just have a  
> little ruby
> script that generates a stream of repeatable random (but valid) JSON.

Neat idea.

Just FYI though, I'm probably going to focus more on the parsing in  
the summary that the speed.

James Edward Gray II