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		userbinator on Aug 18, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (2018) Just matching that regex alone is going to take a pretty large number of instructions (at least dozens.) That's not "simple" by any measure.

pnx on Aug 18, 2019 [–]

Probably tens of thousands.

And it will still be a faster operation than fetching the next json file from disk by an order of magnitude, or two.

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