Re: 1.524

"Martin J. Evans" <[email protected]> Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:45:49 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.dbi.sybase.devel
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On 25/03/13 14:53, demerphq wrote:
> On 25 March 2013 15:48, Martin J. Evans <[email protected]> wrote:
>> as we are producing massive JSON files and every extra "" makes a big
>> difference.
>
> If there is no specific reason to use JSON (like for instance sending
> data to a web browser) and size and speed are priorities then you
> might want to consider using Sereal instead of JSON. It is both faster
> and produces smaller output than JSON.
>
> Yves

Thanks Yves. I've tried Sereal but unfortunately it is just too late to change now. Other reasons are a) it is not readable b) last time I looked it was not supported by all the languages we need to support c) it is still marked experimental.

Martin