JSON parsing benchmarks

gistfile1.rb

require 'benchmark'
require 'json'
require 'yajl'

data = ''
f = File.open("test.json", "r") 
f.each_line do |line|
  data += line
end

Benchmark.bm do |x|
  x.report { 10000.times do; h = JSON.parse(data); end; }
  x.report { 10000.times do; h = Yajl::Parser.new.parse(data); end; }
end

#             user     system      total        real
# JSON     2.760000   0.000000   2.760000 (  2.763451)
# Yajl     2.090000   0.000000   2.090000 (  2.084567)