This web content discusses the design and optimization of a high-performance JSON parser in the Go programming language. The author focuses on the goals of the project, including supporting streaming operations and improving compatibility and efficiency compared to the encoding/json package. The content delves into the challenges of parsing JSON, such as the need to process each byte and token only once, and the author explores different approaches and optimizations to achieve this. The use of a byteReader type and the Scanner.Next function are highlighted as key components of the parser. The author provides benchmark results to demonstrate the performance of the parser and discusses potential improvements. There is no controversial or surprising information in the content.
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