JSON Service Speed

Security Session Inactivity

Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:38:23 GMT

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re: JSON Service Speed

Alexey Lavnikov — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:14:31 GMT

How do you explain that Json serialization which is simpler, e.g.:

a) needs less memory,

b) needs less logic,

looses to DataContractSerializer in some cases (as you said) in terms of speed? Also it's not very obvious, why would serialization of floating point values in Json-mode be slower than using DataContractSerializer?

Something must be wrong with implementation.

re: JSON Service Speed

Nicholas Allen — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:56:27 GMT

Hi Alexey,

It looks like the Json serializer spends more time manipulating character buffers than is required by the Xml approach. This is probably a tradeoff for some other scenario where the character buffers make Json faster than Xml.

Json is a bit simpler format than Xml, but any serialization implementation is going to have complexity. That's what makes it hard to predict performance through intuition.