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aeson: Fast JSON parsing and generation

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A JSON parsing and generation library optimized for ease of use and high performance.

Parsing performance with GHC 6.12.3 on a late 2010 MacBook Pro (2.66GHz Core i7), for mostly-English tweets from Twitter's JSON search API:

  • English, 854 bytes: 29029 msg/sec (23.6 MB/sec)

  • English, 6.4 KB: 6407 msg/sec (40.3 MB/sec)

  • English, 31.2 KB: 1265 msg/sec (38.8 MB/sec)

  • English, 61.5 KB: 585 msg/sec (35.2 MB/sec)

Handling heavily-escaped text is a little more work. Here is parsing performance with Japanese tweets, where much of the text is entirely Unicode-escaped:

  • Japanese, 14.6 KB: 2227 msg/sec (31.9 MB/sec)

  • Japanese, 44.1 KB: 671 msg/sec (29.6 MB/sec)

Encoding performance on the same machine and data:

  • English, 854 bytes: 43439 msg/sec (35.4 MB/sec)

  • English, 6.4 KB: 7127 msg/sec (44.8 MB/sec)

  • Engish, 61.5 KB: 765 msg/sec (46.0 MB/sec)

  • Japanese, 14.6 KB: 4727 msg/sec (67.5 MB/sec)

  • Japanese, 44.1 KB: 1505 msg/sec (64.8 MB/sec)

With GHC 7.0.2, the story is mixed: parsing is 20-40% slower than GHC 6.12.3, while encoding performance ranges from about the same to twice as fast (on numeric data).

(A note on naming: in Greek mythology, Aeson was the father of Jason.)

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Dependencies attoparsec (>=0.8.5.0), base (>=4 && <5), blaze-builder (>=0.2.1.4), bytestring, bytestring-show, containers, deepseq (<1.2), ghc-prim, hashable, integer (>=0.1 && <0.2), integer-gmp, monads-fd, old-locale, syb, text (>=0.11.0.2), time (>=1.1.3), unordered-containers (>=0.1.2.0), vector (>=0.7) [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright Copyright 2011 MailRank, Inc.
Author Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@mailrank.com>
Maintainer Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@mailrank.com>
Revised Revision 2 made by phadej at 2021-10-20T14:58:37Z
Category Text, Web, JSON
Home page http://github.com/mailrank/aeson
Bug tracker http://github.com/mailrank/aeson/issues
Source repo head: git clone http://github.com/mailrank/aeson
head: hg clone http://bitbucket.org/bos/aeson
Uploaded by BryanOSullivan at 2011-03-22T14:43:13Z
Distributions Arch:2.1.2.1, Debian:1.4.7.1, Fedora:2.1.2.1, FreeBSD:0.8.0.2, LTSHaskell:2.1.2.1, NixOS:2.1.2.1, Stackage:2.2.3.0, openSUSE:2.1.2.1
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Welcome to aeson

aeson is a fast Haskell library for working with JSON data.

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We are happy to receive bug reports, fixes, documentation enhancements, and other improvements.

Please report bugs via the github issue tracker.

Master git repository:

  • git clone git://github.com/mailrank/aeson.git

There's also a Mercurial mirror:

  • hg clone http://bitbucket.org/bos/aeson

(You can create and contribute changes using either git or Mercurial.)

Authors

This library is written and maintained by Bryan O'Sullivan, bos@mailrank.com.