Hi,
I have create a new JSON parser using conditional re2c and pure pull Bison
parser. It's a native UTF-8 parser licensed under PHP license (it can be
used for Evil though :) ). The extension is available at
https://github.com/bukka/php-jsond
The encoder is taken from the current ext/json but the decoder has been
completely rewritten.
I have done some basic benchmarks (the results are on the README.md page).
For short strings the results are almost the same (the new parser is
usually slightly faster) but there is a big difference for longer strings.
For example for string with 800 characters the new parser is 4 times
faster. If the string is longer, the results are even better. It's also
much faster for big arrays. For example decoding json_encode($_SERVER) is
twice faster with the new parser.
In addition to the speed improvements there also is a big memory saving.
The old parser converts every serialized string to UTF-16 which requires
additional memory. Although the memory is freed after the parsing, it can
be problematic if the memory_limit is set. The new parser parses supplied
string and no extra memory for conversion is allocated.
I need to do more testing before creating RFC for replacing the current
parser. There is still space for further improvements. If anyone has any
ideas, please let me know. Or if you could test it, that would be great
too! ;)
I haven't finished the build config (it's working but it's not auto rebuild
when you change *.y or *.re files). Need to figure out how to add
Makefile.frag for bison and re2c . It's not working when I add
PHP_ADD_MAKEFILE_FRAGMENT($abs_srcdir/Makefile.frag)
$ make
make: *** No rule to make target
jsond.lo', needed by jsond.la'. Stop.
Has anyone got any idea? :)
Also there is no build for Win atm as I don't have Windows... :( Hopefully
someone will do it for me... :)
Thanks
Jakub