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Software Unscripted
Making Parsing I/O Bound with Daniel Lemire
Season 1, Ep. 69
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Richard talks to Daniel Lemire about his work on simdjson, arguably the fastest JSON parser in the world. They also talk about parsing performance in other contexts, benchmarking, NodeJS string representations, and textbook approaches to performance versus real-world experimentation.
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