Re: Adding simdjson to PECL (faster json decoder)

On 29.08.2022 at 15:21, tyson andre wrote:

> I'd like to add https://github.com/crazyxman/simdjson_php to PECL.
>
> During a previous proposal to add simdjson to php-src, one of the major review comments
> was that people wanted to have it available as a PECL first to test it.
>
> - https://externals.io/message/112638
> - https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/6551
>
> https://github.com/crazyxman/simdjson_php offers around a 2x-3x speedup in decoding json (`simdjson_decode`), and 5x-10x speedup on validating json (`simdjson_validate`)
> on platforms supporting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_instruction,_multiple_data
> depending on the data being decoded.
>
> - Sample benchmark results are available at https://github.com/crazyxman/simdjson_php/tree/master/benchmark
>
> Since then, I've
> - Addressed my own review comments on the php-src PR and added tests and become a maintainer of simdjson_php
> - Fixed Windows build issues and ZTS issues and set up tests of those platforms
> - Added optimizations
>
> Any objections to adding this as a PECL?

Not from my side; on the contrary, this looks like a great addition to
PECL.  Thank you!

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Christoph M. Becker