What's the most efficient way of converting a 10 MB JSON response into an NSDictionary?

Question

Our app must display a big chunk of data with minimal remote http requests, so we have added an endpoint to our backend that provides all the necessary data as a single json

Answer 1

Take a look at JSONKit. It's very fast, and if your JSON has a lot of keys and values that repeat themselves (as is common), its "recently instantiated object cache" will dramatically cut down on the amount of memory used for the "final" NSDictionary.