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How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

(nee.lv)
3883 points kuroguro | 3 comments | 28 Feb 21 19:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.548s | source
1. fastball ◴[01 Mar 21 02:04 UTC] No.26298977[source]▶
Why in the world would you roll your own JSON parser?

For reference, I just ran a 10MB file through the JSON parser I use in Python and it finished in 0.047s (vs 190s)

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2. rapsey ◴[01 Mar 21 07:09 UTC] No.26300372[source]▶
Python has a package manager and a rich standard library.
3. lordnacho ◴[01 Mar 21 07:54 UTC] No.26300547[source]▶
I wonder if there's some corporate policy against using external libs. You'd think most of them would have solved this.