JSON module benchmarking

[code-anth]

@code-anth

I have benchmarked the JSON module ( JSON — Elixir v1.20.4 ) against a few libraries, including Erlang’s :jiffy. I’ve noticed a pattern that I find a bit hard to explain/understand and would like to hear your thoughts on it. Basically, JSON is ~2 times faster than :jiffy when encoding but :jiffy is ~2 times faster in decoding. This makes it quite hard to choose from one library to the other, given that one usually needs both encoding and decoding functionalities.

Simplifying the number of JSON libraries currently used in an application. I was hoping to only use JSON, but it seems significantly slower than :jiffy in decoding, hence the question.