From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-02-03T20:24:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Native gem roundup!

>> $ cd /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/; find . -name '*.so'
>> ./json-1.1.3/ext/json/ext/parser/parser.so
>> ./json-1.1.3/ext/json/ext/generator/generator.so
>> ./json-1.1.3/ext/json/ext/parser.so
>> ./json-1.1.3/ext/json/ext/generator.so
> 
> Do people generally use the native json gem for performance reasons?
> Does a pure-ruby version not cut it? Are there benchmarks?

I only use it by default, because there are other gems which have 
dependencies on "json" rather than "json_pure". e.g.

$ gem dependency couchrest
Gem couchrest-0.12.4
  json (>= 1.1.2, runtime)
  rest-client (>= 0.5, runtime)
  mime-types (>= 1.15, runtime)

Regards,

Brian.
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