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Deliberately provocative conversation piece: If you're concerned enough about performance, or message passing costs are enough of an overall performance bottleneck, that parsing your messages even 1.7x as fast is worth changing the way you code, you probably shouldn't be using JSON as your message format in the first place.
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If it's exclusively going to be used for heavyweight operations like these, it's probably better to benchmark against protobuf decoding. I guess using JSON has a "works out of the box" appeal, and doesn't require defining any protobuf schema. But personally I don't see defining proto files as too prohibitive in terms of development cost.
> benchmark against protobuf decoding Protobuf isn't built into the browser, so it can't bypass the JS parse & execute time. Instead you'd be parsing protobuf's JS, executing it, parsing proto, and producing objects. It'd be worth doing, sure, but it'd almost certainly be the slowest option by far since it's doing way more stuff in JS than either of the other two options and the JS syntax parse is the slow part.
At the end of the day, who knows if the use case hits edge cases or stresses parts of the implementation that is not optimized for JSON decode or protobuf. Getting meaningful performance data ultimately needs to be experimental, and resists categorical answers about whether X is faster than Y.
1. https://www.npmjs.com/package/protobufjs#performance
This article goes into a bit more detail: https://auth0.com/blog/beating-json-performance-with-protobu...
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Thankfully most other developed country’s healthcare system doesn’t penalise individuals quite so significantly as the broken system you Americans keep voting for. I’m not saying the UK or other European counties have the perfect healthcare systems either but at least we aren’t tied to a job we don’t like because losing our company’s health scheme is too scary to consider.
If you're not paying for it with your money, then you have to pay with your time: public healthcare systems, like those in Europe are known for the long wait times for patients requiring surgery, or other costly procedures. Also, traveling to the US for treatment is still a thing, because new, advanced treatments are developed and first implemented in the US, so all that money spent give you something in return.
It sounds like you’re saying America is the only country in the world developing new and advanced treatments and the only country people travel to for such surgery. Clearly that’s not even remotely true (and even if it were, which it isn’t, it still doesn’t justify just how badly broken your healthcare system is for domestic users).
Deliberately provocative conversation piece: If you're concerned enough about performance, or message passing costs are enough of an overall performance bottleneck, that parsing your messages even 1.7x as fast is worth changing the way you code, you probably shouldn't be using JSON as your message format in the first place.
We're talking about JavaScript in the browser though... what other message format is more readily and performantly processed in-browser using JavaScript than JSON?
Deliberately provocative conversation piece: If you're concerned enough about performance, or message passing costs are enough of an overall performance bottleneck, that parsing your messages even 1.7x as fast is worth changing the way you code, you probably shouldn't be using JSON as your message format in the first place.
We're talking about JavaScript in the browser though... what other message format is more readily and performantly processed in-browser using JavaScript than JSON?
Deliberately provocative conversation piece: If you're concerned enough about performance, or message passing costs are enough of an overall performance bottleneck, that parsing your messages even 1.7x as fast is worth changing the way you code, you probably shouldn't be using JSON as your message format in the first place.
We're talking about JavaScript in the browser though... what other message format is more readily and performantly processed in-browser using JavaScript than JSON?
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To be honest, I understand the bit of backlash that I’ve received here and I think it’s well-deserved since I should’ve worded my statement better. Thank you for your comments. You all are correct re firing someone over mistakes and seemingly trivial matters. I was mostly referring to software engineers who make impactful decisions without good reason and/or without properly assessing the trade-offs. I think it’s fai…
> Part of me still thinks that he just wanted to learn/use the JNI and that project seemed like the perfect target. Lol. As a dev who sometimes goes off chasing wind mills, that's 99% of the reason why I do it. I find something nice to tinker with, and when my brain goes "ooh, shiny" I stop giving a shit about anyone's bottom line. To be fair, it usually turns out for the better for the project and its code base! But…
Perhaps they should be willing, but your description of this distraction does not including informing the Company and allowing them to determine whether it’s a risk they are willing to accept. You decided for them because you didn’t want to receive the answer “no” in return. This isn’t right.
Deliberately provocative conversation piece: If you're concerned enough about performance, or message passing costs are enough of an overall performance bottleneck, that parsing your messages even 1.7x as fast is worth changing the way you code, you probably shouldn't be using JSON as your message format in the first place.
We're talking about JavaScript in the browser though... what other message format is more readily and performantly processed in-browser using JavaScript than JSON?
That said, I'm going to also submit that, if you're shoving big enough messages at a fast enough clip that you feel motivated to be this worried about deserialization speed in the browser, you've also got bigger fish to fry.
Either way you cut it, it's at least worth stopping to think about whether you're being penny wise and pound foolish.
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counterpoint: you are just as free to take the same liberty with your employer. You can drop them like a bad date, and take a job somewhere else. additional counterpoint: part of your job as being a grown up responsible adult is your ability to manage and endure risk and loss, especially the risk of your job disappearing overnight. Outside of circumstances of extreme poverty, or extreme disability, in which our gover…
Some of us can’t just lost our health insurance on a whim.
That plus your emergency savings funds, should more than account to hold you over 6 months to find your next role. 5 years ago. I'll save my survivorship bias story for how I coped with this exact situation 5 years ago because I know everyone's situation is unique, but the lessons of growing up with 2 unemployed parents and living month to month not knowing if the bank was going to repossess our house have stayed with me I guess.
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I was expecting something about the extent to which JSON processing in the world contributes to global warming or some such
Parsing 1GB of flat JSON data is equal to 1.61 metric cow farts.
Think I'm joking?: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/not-so-conservati...