Fastest way to iterate through JSON string in Javascript

Question

I have been using $.each of the jQuery framework to iterate through a JSON string that I receive via an AJAX call. Now this string is sometimes quite huge and as a result IE6/7/

Answer 1

How about using the regular javascript functions?

If for example you have a JSON object with items in them, you could just eval the JSON string to convert it to javascript objects, and iterate over them using 'for (i in object)'.