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Niels Lohmann f39b5b1bae Compare json_view with yyjson, simdjson, and Boost.JSON
tests/benchmarks/json_view/ holds a comparison with other
libraries, answering the question users ask when they pick one.
It is not built by CMake and not run by CI.

- bench_view.cpp: parse, traverse, select and dump of twitter,
  citm_catalog, canada, jeopardy, a tweet and an RPC request,
  against json_view, yyjson, simdjson, Boost.JSON and json::parse,
  all agreeing and run interleaved.
- bench_corpus.cpp: parse, traverse and dump of any file list.
- bench_edit.cpp: parses, edits through each library's own API,
  and serializes; all outputs must describe the same value.
- compare.py: builds both programs with system or pinned,
  SHA-256-checked downloads, and writes results with the commit,
  CPU, OS, compiler and library versions.
- README.md and a workflow that runs on demand or via a PR label.

Fairness fixes folded in: each engine runs once untimed before
each timed round, so the next one no longer pays for the
previous one's cleanup; dump is also compared with source numbers
against yyjson's raw-number mode; a "simdjson DOM (fresh)" column
and a reused-document column for json_view were added;
compare.py's paths are absolute; downloads use a .part file and a
failed checksum removes the archive.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
2026-10-06 10:48:07 +02:00

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name: "json_view benchmarks"
# On demand only: runs the comparison of json_view with yyjson, simdjson, and
# Boost.JSON (tests/benchmarks/json_view/compare.py) on GitHub-hosted runners,
# for numbers from x86-64 and AArch64 Linux. It runs when started by hand, or
# when a pull request gets the label "benchmark" (on both architectures, with
# GCC and the default settings). Shared runners are noisy: the results show
# where json_view stands, but published numbers need a quiet machine (see
# tests/benchmarks/json_view/README.md).
on:
pull_request:
types: [labeled]
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
runner:
description: "Runner image"
type: choice
options:
- ubuntu-24.04
- ubuntu-24.04-arm
default: ubuntu-24.04
compiler:
description: "Compiler"
type: choice
options:
- g++
- clang++
default: g++
native:
description: "Compile for the runner's CPU (-march=native)"
type: boolean
default: false
rounds:
description: "Rounds of bench_view"
type: number
default: 30
permissions:
contents: read
jobs:
compare:
if: github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' || github.event.label.name == 'benchmark'
strategy:
matrix:
runner: ${{ fromJSON(github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && format('["{0}"]', inputs.runner) || '["ubuntu-24.04", "ubuntu-24.04-arm"]') }}
runs-on: ${{ matrix.runner }}
steps:
- name: Harden Runner
uses: step-security/harden-runner@e14015d583714f6e62063499dc959a02595150a1 # v2.21.1
with:
egress-policy: audit
- uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
with:
persist-credentials: false
- name: Download test data
run: |
cmake -S . -B build -DJSON_BuildTests=On
cmake --build build --target download_test_data
- name: Run the comparison
env:
CXX: ${{ inputs.compiler || 'g++' }}
CC: ${{ inputs.compiler == 'clang++' && 'clang' || 'gcc' }}
ROUNDS: ${{ inputs.rounds || 30 }}
NATIVE: ${{ inputs.native && '--native' || '' }}
run: python3 tests/benchmarks/json_view/compare.py --data build/test_files --download --rounds "$ROUNDS" $NATIVE
- name: Summary
run: cat tests/benchmarks/json_view/results/*.md >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
- uses: actions/upload-artifact@043fb46d1a93c77aae656e7c1c64a875d1fc6a0a # v7.0.1
with:
name: json_view-benchmarks-${{ matrix.runner }}-${{ inputs.compiler || 'g++' }}
path: tests/benchmarks/json_view/results/