Python 2.6 JSON decoding performance

Question

I\'m using the json module in Python 2.6 to load and decode JSON files. However I\'m currently getting slower than expected performance. I\'m using a test case

Answer 1

Looking in my installation of Python 2.6.1 on windows, the json package loads the _json module, which is built into the runtime. C source for the json speedups module is here.

>>> import _json
>>> _json

>>> print _json.__doc__
json speedups
>>> dir(_json)
['__doc__', '__name__', '__package__', 'encode_basestring_ascii', 'scanstring']
>>>