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		rafaelmn on Aug 25, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I sped up serde_json strings by 20% Who says that's a bad thing ? Sometimes things are good enough and just need to be vetted and maintained.

Ygg2 on Aug 25, 2024 [–]

Rarely that's ever true. Hardware and software assumption will change over time. E.g. Simd is rare and not available to 99% of hardware has it, pointer is 16/32/64 bit wide, that API is available, SGML/JSON/XML is all parsing you will ever need.

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