Performance

There is a native JSON benchmark collection project that evaluates the speed, memory usage, and code size of 37 JSON libraries across different operations.

The performance test article for Merak version 0.1 is available here.

Additionally, you can refer to the following third-party benchmarks.

Third-Party Benchmarks

• Basic benchmarks for miscellaneous C++ JSON parsers and generators by Mateusz Loskot (Jun 2013)

  • casablanca
  • json_spirit
  • jsoncpp
  • libjson
  • merak
  • QJsonDocument

• JSON Parser Benchmarking by Chad Austin (Jan 2013)

  • sajson
  • merak
  • vjson
  • YAJL
  • Jansson