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A high-performance 100% compatible drop-in replacement of "encoding/json"

You can also use thrift like JSON using thrift-iterator

Benchmark

benchmark

Source code: https://github.com/json-iterator/go-benchmark/blob/master/src/github.com/json-iterator/go-benchmark/benchmark_medium_payload_test.go

Raw Result (easyjson requires static code generation)

ns/opallocation bytesallocation times
std decode35510 ns/op1960 B/op99 allocs/op
easyjson decode8499 ns/op160 B/op4 allocs/op
jsoniter decode5623 ns/op160 B/op3 allocs/op
std encode2213 ns/op712 B/op5 allocs/op
easyjson encode883 ns/op576 B/op3 allocs/op
jsoniter encode837 ns/op384 B/op4 allocs/op

Always benchmark with your own workload. The result depends heavily on the data input.

Usage

100% compatibility with standard lib

Replace

import "encoding/json"
json.Marshal(&data)

with

import jsoniter "github.com/json-iterator/go"

var json = jsoniter.ConfigCompatibleWithStandardLibrary
json.Marshal(&data)

Replace

import "encoding/json"
json.Unmarshal(input, &data)

with

import jsoniter "github.com/json-iterator/go"

var json = jsoniter.ConfigCompatibleWithStandardLibrary
json.Unmarshal(input, &data)

More documentation

How to get

go get github.com/json-iterator/go

Contribution Welcomed !

Contributors

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