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Date:	Wed, 11 Feb 2015 17:16:17 -0600
From:	John Griessen <john AT ecosensory DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] Using Lua to safely read configuration and layout
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On 02/11/2015 04:19 PM, Jason White wrote:
> John, this is using Lua not JSON.
>
> To iterate through all 200,000 elements in the 10 megabyte file
> without printing, the program took 1.14 seconds on my dual core
> machine from 2003. So roughly 175,000 elements per second or even more
> roughly 8.8 "megabytes per second" given some average size per
> element.

Sounds like it'll do, doesn't it?:-)  Lua!  I bet it will parse gschem data as is pretty well also.

JSON seems to like XML with the explicit repetition of the name for
each item in a name:value pair list... not so hot.

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