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I don't know but the benchmarks are aweful, since scala and python using their built in Json Parsers and not the fastest parsers available and he is comparing some other super fast libraries against D and says "hoho" it's so fast.

Benchmarks are for the poor people who can't live in the real world.

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Benchmarks would be fine if they could somehow actually compare performance between languages. I have yet to see any benchmarks between languages that are even close to being results that would actually be seen.

A strange way of putting it. He started out using the standard library for D with dmd compiler, and then people submitted pull requests to give better information about choices and he incorporated these.

Anyone else is free to do the same.

If you know of a faster parser in any language, I would love to hear, because getting the job done well matters more to me.

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