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Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 17:16:45 -0400
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Subject: Re: View Performance (was Re: The 1.0 Thread)
From: Paul Davis <paul.joseph.davis@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Brian Candler<B.Candler@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 06:16:11PM +0100, Jason Davies wrote:
>> Nice work! =A0I'd be interested to see what kind of performance increase
>> we get from Spidermonkey 1.8.1, which comes with native JSON parsing/
>> encoding.
>
> I noted that main.js already uses native JSON parsing, in the sense of
> eval(). But the JSON encoding clearly could benefit from speeding up.
>
> Rather than migrate completely to 1.8.1, would it be possible to bolt on =
a
> JSON.encode C extension to 1.7? (Although of course that still involves
> building a custom 1.7, unless js has a way to dynamically load extensions=
)
>

You don't need to load anything into spidermonkey for native encoding,
just create a C function that can parse JSON and load it into the
context. You can see the examples of things like print and evalcx that
are already in couch_js.c